I’ve spent the last week or so pondering why I have an ATR. I’m a physically fit man in my early 40s. I always stretch before I exercise, including my calf muscles. On the day my injury happened, I was playing with my son in the backyard. I was knelling over to pick-up a football with very little pressure on my Achilles when I felt a tremendous pain in my calf muscle (but no pop sound).
Needless to say, I’m now anxious if not downright paranoid that my other Achilles might rupture. It has felt a bit sore since I spend so much time hopping around on it. My doctor tells me that I lack flexibility in my Achilles and I’m at risk for a rupture in my healthy leg. So, several time a day I try to do some stretches on my healthy leg, but I have this nagging feeling that it’s not enough.
I also wonder whether the leg that has the injury will ever be 100%. This injury is just so strange because I never worried about my Achilles before and now I feel that it’s the most vulnerable part of my body.
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Im with you! Im fit, 40s and mine went some 40mins into a run. Slipped on some harbour steps. But I must have slipped and hyperextended stacks of times in my life and just shrugged it off. So why now?!
Been mulling over the exact same issue over the last couple of months, and associated concern for good leg. Had stacks of barrack room lawyers give their 2 cents worth - from too much white wine (the French) to - its a Western problem (im over in Asia!). If anyone has a more scientific based answer, we are all ears!
cheers Hoppy