Achilles problems

[Celine Dion]

At wit's end as picked up another achilles injury. Had same injury 6months ago and every seemed to be going fine. I've even been stretching regularly and looking after myslef. I've only been running say 4 times a week and not been doing any interval work and only run on the road say once a week. Don't understand why i'm being plagued with this re-occuring injury. Because of where I live it's not really possible to run on the flat as it's either up or down hill. Before I burn all of my running shoes, anyone else suffered regularly with achilles injuries and found a cure? (Rant over)
Thanks

[injury advice]

I would advise if this is an injury you have been troubled with for me time, go and book an appointment with a Podiatrist.

Let forum members know where you are & ime sure you will get a personal recomendation of who to go and se.

[Celine Dion]

I would advise if this is an injury you have been troubled with for me time, go and book an appointment with a Podiatrist.

Let forum members know where you are & ime sure you will get a personal recomendation of who to go and se.

Thanks. The only thing I've been told is that I have a slight fallen arch on the the ankle I get the injury on. Thanks for your help.

[molehill]

Yes, I suffer. Lost best part of 5 months (all last summer), that achiles is back ok and one short run 2 weeks ago and the other started to play up. But learnt my lesson from previous times (I like to think). Immediately stopped all running & walking, and started to regular ice and gentle stretching. Two weeks on and I've done 4 hours walking in last 2 days and on the mend. Not sure what the answer is, once I'm up and going and ankles well toughened up I'm not troubled.
It's a matter of very slow build up and resting them after big efforts. Last years injury was trying to continue training straight after the 100.

[Brotherton Lad]

Some achilles trouble can be caused by the heel cups. These are often a plastic insert and can impinge on some people's achilles. The usual remedy is to heat the cup in steam from a kettle and pull it back to give the achilles more room or slip the shoe on while it's still warm and pliable. I know other people have cut a slice out with a stanley knife.
I've not had to do this myself so I hope someone with personal experience will respond.

[molehill]

I think my problems are caused by a lifetime of physical abuse, I never suffered injuries when younger, and age. I believe it is quite a common problem for 'older' persons.

[john doe]

I've just started to get a slight burning sensation in my achilles and after thinking what may have started it off it may be squat jumps I've introduced into me body-weight sets.

[Brotherton Lad]

I know the feeling. I went through several stages:

Up to mid thirties - injuries heal quickly and entirely.
Up to early forties - they heal more slowly but still entirely.
Now in early fifties - they heal slowly and incompletely.

I'm now a collection of various running injuries that I carry around like a host of squatters that I can't evict. It's dawning on me that the really successful veterans are the ones who've been lucky enough to avoid collecting too many. Either that or they really are Peter Pan.

[jefpk]

I was struggling with an achilles injury last year and saw a physio, who has an orthotic specialist working alongside him, in deeside. The orthotics have sorted out the problem brilliantly. Admittably, it was a biomechanical problem, so it makes sense they helped me out so much. If you're interested, PM me and I can put you in touch with them.

[number]

I've had a nagging Achilles for 18 months, tried everything from Acupuncture, ultrasound, massage, Traumeel cream and stretching till the light went out. I managed to recover for last years 3 peaks, but then couldn't resist doing the Laing Ghru through Cairngorm and that put me back to square one again so had 6 months of no impact and changed Physio to the Sport injury Clinic at Bolton University £15 per session and the guy worked on prevention not correction (unlike the Bupa rip off) and slowly with new orthotics and neutral shoes instead of over pronator/orthotics have started running again slowly and no running uphill for 15 minutes or more its a bit difficult in Pendle area.

I have found downhill running more painful on the achilles, but the guy also taught me hell of alot about the achilles and the frightening prospects of 4 times your body weight on the achilles when running up hill did nearly put me off. Hope to back racing in July