achilles tendon

[Master]

My achilles tendon ache after training and playing football. I do stretch before and after but that does not stop the pain after. It takes a day to get better by walking. Any way of stopping the pain all together?

[Scrap]

Wheres the pain Heel or Calf and what are your Stretches

[AdamGB]

Stop stretching before hand!

Warming up and stretching are two different things. Your muscles and tendons are like an elastic band. When you stretch you are stretching the muscle tissue and tendons past their comfortable range. If you imagine doing the same thing to an elastic band - you would be able to see little tears in it's fibre - the same thing happens to your muscles... after stretching they heal and you develop muscle and tendon length.

But when when you go off and perform vigorous exercises you repeatedly contract those muscles and pull on those tendons, if there's micro tears in the tissues than this is likely to increase the chances of damage and injury.

I bet after playing/training your calves will be TENSE, the last thing you want is tense muscles pulling on tendons that have been temporarily weakened by stretching.

Really it could be a number of things, but probably the first to rule out is stretching when cold and before vigorous exercise and over stretching.

[Master]

Stop stretching before hand!

Warming up and stretching are two different things. Your muscles and tendons are like an elastic band. When you stretch you are stretching the muscle tissue and tendons past their comfortable range. If you imagine doing the same thing to an elastic band - you would be able to see little tears in it's fibre - the same thing happens to your muscles... after stretching they heal and you develop muscle and tendon length.

But when when you go off and perform vigorous exercises you repeatedly contract those muscles and pull on those tendons, if there's micro tears in the tissues than this is likely to increase the chances of damage and injury.

I bet after playing/training your calves will be TENSE, the last thing you want is tense muscles pulling on tendons that have been temporarily weakened by stretching.

Really it could be a number of things, but probably the first to rule out is stretching when cold and before vigorous exercise and over stretching.

That makes sense, I have pulled my calf by over stretching which I have never ever done before. Stupid stretching never used to do it before. Will try just warming up. Feel better already. Thanks.

[Scrap]

Adams was a great reply, I was trying to get to the underlying problem of why. Usualy its Gait if brought on by running Technique suffers if not doing the correct preperation.

[AdamGB]

Funny one this.

the peneral tendon (think that's how it's spelt? :P) on the bottom of my left foot had been flaring up for a few weaks.

I remember cramping up my calf doing some plyos in the middle of a roadwork session and jogging it off, it was fine afterwards. The week after I was walking down hte street in normal shoes and it really started hurting. I put it down to over exerting in the run and thought it would just go away.

Took over a week for the penny to drop, it first came on a few days after the run, I was walking down the street with my everyday shoes on. they're trainer-shoes so I just lace them up and slip them on and off. To cut a long story short they'd became quite lose from doing this.

I tightened them up and it was gona within a few days. The muscles related to that tendon (I don't know the latin, some of the innercalf muscles-medial/posterior?) are involved in stablising the ankle joint and must have been affected by cramp I felt and obviously having my shows all over the place was the grain of sand that broke the camels back (or foot! ).

Guess it shows that what you say is true- the body works all or nothing... one little problem and because I didn't spot it- a few days later I can barely walk!

[Master]

Wheres the pain Heel or Calf and what are your Stretches

The pain is at the heel. What AdamGB says makes sense.

[Master]

Played football yesterday and had no major problems with the achilles tendon. I did notice that I do not run/spring off the left leg and, as it is weaker after my operation 18 months ago.

[Scrap]

Master, you started getting Headaches yet

[Scrap]

In reply to Masters message I got, about Headaches. Any severe injury to the Ankle Knee or Hip, gives the thing that the Body is balancing the Head problems. To keep its stability it over recruits muscles in the upper Back and Kneck for balancing the Oral cavaty. This causes an imbalance in the muscles having to work not as they were meant to, giving poor alinement causing Headaches.

[Master]

In reply to Masters message I got, about Headaches. Any severe injury to the Ankle Knee or Hip, gives the thing that the Body is balancing the Head problems. To keep its stability it over recruits muscles in the upper Back and Kneck for balancing the Oral cavaty. This causes an imbalance in the muscles having to work not as they were meant to, giving poor alinement causing Headaches.

Now I understand and no I do not get any headaches, sounds complete b****cks.