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Hi! I also just connected with this blog and am grateful to build community around this journey. I had my surgery the day your ATR took place. I am one week out and like you endeavoring to stay positive and work with time in creative ways. I admire your tenacity and focus and appreciate your wife’s voice, too! Best wishes.

Hi there,
I’ve found this site after beginning to look at the recovery process for an ATR. I am a very active 46 year old guy who suffered a ATR Friday 25/5/2018. I went to the hospital straight after rupturing it at a casual football with some work colleagues. I couldn’t quite believe it when the nurse told me what I’d done as I keep very fit and do a lot of leg strength work. I am also a triathlete. I had two holidays planned, one being a lifetime family trip to Canada. Both are now cancelled Anyway I’ve now seen the consultant who said I’ll be in a cast for 10 -12 weeks, changing to a boot at maybe 3 or 6 weeks. It’s starting to dawn on me how long my recovery is going to take. I’ve broken my leg twice playing football but it seems nothing compared to an ATR. I thought I would need surgery but the consultant said that there could be complications. Also my age may of played a factor. I’ve started reading lots of blogs and am worried that I’m going to rerupture before I even get started on my recovery. I know it’s going to be slow (a year or more) and I will want to recover quickly as I’m really impatient but I know I have to t

I am very sad due to your surgery and pain. And I wish you will get well soon and enjoy the healthy life like all of us. I understood your pain because you face hurts for more than five months. One more thing you need to proper exercise as your physician suggest you. Exercise will be help in recovery your fitness.

Progress definitely slows down the further along you get I noted that in my blog too. Starting out you see progress weekly but as you get healed more you only see progress monthly. It’s kind of a drag - LOL!

Hang in there! Sounds like your making progress for sure! I am 30 weeks POST OP. I can jog/run with no inclines. I feel like the progress hasn’t been much the last couple months having finished PT. I just know the scar tissue around the AT is healing and everything looks good.

I wanted instant results and vastly underestimated the recovery time for this surgery!

Baby steps. Take it one week at a time!

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It does take time! And yes I suggested not walking barefoot until the 6 month mark since that’s what my doc told me and he explained why. And with regard to walking - take smaller steps so you can walk with a normal gait. As you get stronger you can lengthen the stride. It is important to have a normal gait so your body doesn’t start making weird adaptations to avoid pain. And my PT always said - if it hurts don’t do it. So remember that. When I started heel raises I first started while laying on a counter so most weight was held in my arms, Then I stood up more but still had my hands on the counter. Then I held the wall for support and, eventually, I could do it while free standing. It just takes time to get the strength back and you have to listen to your body to know what is right.

Hang in there! I found walking around the house in a pair of brand new crocs has helped me a TON. The doctor never said anything about barefoot walking but I believe CSerpent told me not to walk around bare footing and I have heeded the advice and really felt more comfortable.

The calf raises will come. I completely was in the same BOAT and I am 5 months into this. I would raise up on BOTH and the lower down on my surgery one and was like HOLY CRAP I am so weak but you are building strength everyday. Remember ICE is key too. I do not ICE enough.

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I flew home from Kenya last week, 42 hours after rupturing my achilles. Got loads of help in Kenya with staff waiting and helping me board the plane, luckily flying up front so got a bit spoilt.

However when I got to Heathrow it was a different story, got a wheel chair of the plane, to a buggy and a 20 minute wait, then to immigration which I had to hop through and then hop to the wheel chair station, had a 30 minute wait for a porter to take me to get my bags and then a 30 minute wait for my taxi driver to find me. Not the best experience after 16 hours travelling

I flew for the first time last week and it was pretty unusual to extend my foot into the isle without a shoe on to get some swelling relief. I also noticed that it was dangerous to walk through the terminal. Someone could easily bump an exposed achilles out of a boot. Glad you are ok!

Since I was given a disabled pass that was good for the first 5 months I had no qualms asking for help when I needed it. I also made me doctor explain why he limited me at the various phases during recovery so I had a better grasp of what the physical reasons were for the limitations and could better guess what I could and couldn’t do. I guess some folks don’t want to ask for help - but airports are glad to give it to you as are many stores.

thanks for the advice — I will talk to my PT and scale things back away from the sharp pain exercises

My PT guy said if it hurts stop. Things are still healing so you don’t want to reinjure anything. When I started calf raises I first laid my torso on the bed so very little weight was on my foot. Then moved to leaning with my elbows on a counter, then to being mostly upright but holding a lot weight in my hands on a counter. You basically start with as little weight on your foot as possible (of course the very first thing was sitting calf raises, first with no weight, then adding weight to the leg as I was directed) and move to being upright in the end. As emupilot said - your PT should be telling you all these things. If s/he isn’t you should find another PT.

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I would avoid doing anything that causes sharp pain unless your PT and/or doctor say it’s OK. I’ve certainly had muscle soreness type of pain with calf raises but nothing truly painful. There are various exercises you can do to control how much weight to put on your bad leg which your PT can show you. Strengthening your calf muscles will take many months, so you’ll have to do it in lots of baby steps.

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Yeah, those exercises were pretty rough for me as well. I think I started with seated calf raises around 9 or 10 weeks, then standing calf raises maybe around 12 weeks or so. I didn’t start coming down solely on my repaired leg until after that.

My injury was the same way - a gnarly pop but no major pain. I kept expecting it to hurt and it never did. Then the PT exercises ended up hurting.

Congrats on getting into the 3rd month of rehab. I got a real boost around that point because I started to see some progress after so much sitting around immobilized.

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Glad that you are in a walking boot. Life does feel more normal when you can walk around without crutches. Yes, definitely be careful when you don’t have the boot on.
Best of luck with the PT! happy healing!

Best of luck! Keep us posted!

thanks for the encouragement!

@emupilot, I’m starting to realize that there is no benefit in pushing too hard at this point, so I’m pretty much couch bound for the near term.

Good luck, and I hope you find the iWalk as useful as I did. It made a huge difference for me in the first few weeks after surgery. I hated that week between injury and surgery but at least it gives you a chance to practice, like you said.

The next couple weeks are not a time to be a hero - stay on the couch with your foot elevated. I recommend a knee scooter, at least for getting around in the house - as you can attest, crutches are awful. Good luck with surgery - once that is done you can start healing. Keep us posted on your progress.

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