| Achilles tendinitis means you feel pain in the large | | | | If you want to try to resume your running program, |
| tendon that extends from in the back of your heel to | | | | start out by jogging very slowly daily until your tendon |
| your calf muscle. It hurts most when you get up in the | | | | starts to hurt and then quit for the day. Soon you will |
| morning and when you start to walk or run. It will heal | | | | be able to jog for more than a half hour, but that will |
| only if you stop running and find another sport that | | | | not condition you enough to compete in any sport. |
| doesn't hurt when you do it, such as cycling, swimming, | | | | When you no longer have any pain, you can |
| or pulling on a rowing machine. | | | | strengthen the tendon by learning how to run fast. You |
| The Achilles tendon is made up of thousands of | | | | must stop immediately if you feel a pulling behind your |
| individual fibers, like a rope with thousand of threads. | | | | heel and each intense workout will require several |
| The fibers are broken by applying a force greater than | | | | easy days to allow you to recover. Try to run very |
| their inherent strength. No medicines hasten healing. As | | | | fast once or twice a week, never on consecutive |
| soon as the tendon stops hurting, doctors usually | | | | days. OR consider switching to another sport that |
| prescribe strengthening exercises, but you have to | | | | uses smooth motions and does not pound on the |
| exercise against greater resistance to become strong | | | | pavement. |
| and strong resistance prevents healing. | | | | |