Last night was my first shockwave therapy session for my achilles. It should be the first of about six treatments. During this time, I was instructed to stop doing my Alfredson’s Protocol exercises, which is OK with me. After all, I wasn’t seeing any significant progress.
The way I understand it, the SWT will break apart [...]
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After going for x-rays last week, I had another appointment with my Doctor and was informed that not only is my achilles tendinitis chronic (I already knew that) I have calcium deposits on my achilles tendon. And that could be contributing to the pain as I continue my Alfredson’s protocol exercises. So, to help get [...]
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The doctor thinks there could be some “calcification” on my achilles tendon so he sent me to get X-rays yesterday. I’m not sure what the implication of that. We will see soon whether that is the case.
I also have an appointment to get an ultrasound next week as well. I suppose the more information the [...]
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I hurt my achilles tendon last summer (Aug. 20, 2016) while hiking the Grouse Grind in Vancouver, BC. I didn’t treat it too seriously and just figured it would go away on it’s own. After I hurt it, I went on a 75 km hike and I basically limped the whole way. That probably didn’t [...]
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