you may be experiencing an issue with your Achilles tendon or plantar fascia. Ever since the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, there has been a rise in heel and Achilles injuries. There are many ...

The NHS undertakes more than 8,000 Achilles tendon repair operations a year. Here, Elizabeth Brooker, 32, a theatre nurse who lives with her husband near Penryn, Cornwall, tells us about her ...

keele.ac.uk Tendon disorders are a major problem in sports and occupational medicine. Tendons have the highest tensile strength of all connective tissue because of a high proportion of collagen in the ...

ABOUT twenty years ago, a new procedure for lengthening the Achilles tendon was first employed. It is known as triple hemisection. Dr. Michael Hoke, who is believed to have been the first to use ...

In the largest study of 775 patients, the overall complication rate of surgically treated Achilles tendon ruptures was 20%. [6] These complications include skin necrosis, wound infection ...