Two years in
Hello everyone,
It’s my 2 year anniversary (give or take a few days) Achilles feels strong but I still have some stiffness (snigger) across the front of my foot.Quack thinks it some kind of bony spur which may need ‘trimming’ I’ll see whether I go for it at some point in the future.
Apart from that things are fine (school holidays -Hurrah !) Still checking in to the blog periodically and watching peoples progress. Incidentally just to join in the recent rather heated debate I had two surgeries, the conservative approach failed miserably whereas the surgical option worked perfectly. Only my experience I know but as far as I’m concerned the facts speak clearly for themselves.
Anyway, good luck everybody - it does end !
Richard xx
July 23rd, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Sounds great except for the stiffness thing, Richard!
Focus on any single case here (including your own, or even my own) and you’ll form a strong opinion on SOMETHING — and an opinion that may or may not conform to the best evidence on that topic. My one ATR surgery worked “perfectly”, too, and my ATR non-surgery has been working much better in most ways and a bit less well in one (the speed of calf-strength return). From this I conclude that I should leave the scientific conclusions to the scientific studies!
I am a big fan of ATR non-surgery, but a staunch foe of “the conservative approach”! The former has consistently produced excellent results in four randomized trials, while the latter has produced bad results (including excessively high re-rupture rates) for many decades. Some people incorrectly lump them together.
July 23rd, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Richard what is it with you I don’t check in for ages and there you are!!
July 23rd, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Richard what is it with you I don’t check in for ages and there you are!!
Lots of walkies lined up with little bremner over the holidays I presume. Some of us don’t get school holidays off we work right through the year.
Not long now you getting excited. Want to loan some of our players?
About to send you an emailed articled my cousins son has written he’s been signed up by the FA to report on Blackpool, he graduated last week.
Not talking about my leg !!