Return to Training After Achilles Tendon Rupture

Question:

Tanchik

Tanchik

Instagram: @tachello14

Good afternoon.

How to return to training after the old Achilles tendon rapture? Four and a half months had passed 4.5 months after surgery.

Thank you.

Answer:

Кульков Олег Сергеевич

Kulkov Oleg

Master of Sports of International class in track and field athletics, winner of the Zurich marathon, participant of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, multiple European Cup and Russian championships medalist, coach of the school “I Love Running”

Good afternoon.

Sports career of many runners and jumpers was cut short after the Achilles tendon rapture. It is serious injury that requires close attention during rehabilitation. If you hurry and increase the load there is a high probability of relapse. It is recommended just to work out your ankle joint and do light stretching of a tendon at the beginning. As a rule, a tendon tends to be shortened after surgery, and it takes time to recover a range of motion. 

You should start running trainings with running on very soft surface and your running shoes should be very soft as well. The duration of runs should be kept to minimum and further load increase should be done gradually. But once you feel discomfort you should stop trainings until discomfort or pain is gone completely.   

Exclude jumps and cross country running from your trainings for a while.

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