Once you reach the point of rehabilitation for the injury to the Achilles tendon, came more than 80% of the route. You may also feel that your Achilles will be refunded in full. The treatment may have ceased to regard the swelling and bleeding, and, where applicable, the amount of scar tissue in the Achilles tendon and calf muscles have reduced. But there is an important thing to do.

The last 20% is the most important for full recovery. If you have ever suffered a sports injury in the past, you’ll know how annoying it is to believe you again, and then out-of-the-blue, six injured and returned to the starting point. This is one of the most frustrating and heart breaking cycles an athlete or anyone else for that matter happen to. 

Achilles tendon injury active rehabilitation

Most people refer to this phase of recovery, since the active phase of rehabilitation, because during this phase is responsible for rehabilitation. The exercises and activities required to accelerate the complete recovery.

The goal of this phase is the rehabilitation of your injury to the Achilles tendon to recover all the components of fitness that lost due to injury. Regain flexibility, strength, muscular endurance, balance and coordination is the primary target. Without this phase of rehabilitation, there is no hope of completely and permanently making a full recovery.

The first point to clarify is that it is important to stay active. Often the advice of doctors and related medical personnel rest is easy. This may be one of the worst things you can do. Without some form of activity in the area concerned is not the river of blood required for recovery. Active transport is both the oxygen and nutrients to the injury are necessary to enable them to heal.

Warning! Never, never, never any activity that hurts Achilles. Of course, you may feel some discomfort, but never go where you feel pain. Be very careful about doing an activity that you take. Pain is the warning: do not ignore it.

Achilles tendon injury recovery: Range of motion

Regain a full range of motion of your Achilles and the ankle is the first priority in this phase of rehabilitation. A full range of motion is extremely important because they are the basis for the exercises more intense and more difficult later in the process of active rehabilitation.

How do you deal with the early phases of recovery and your Achilles’ work begins to begin to heal, to introduce some very gentle movements. Before bending and straightening of the ankle, as you get comfortable with this simple movement, you begin to incorporate some rotation exercises. Transform your ankles from side to side and rotate clockwise and counterclockwise.

If you perform this range of motion exercises, and it is relatively painless, it’s time to move to the next stage of active rehabilitation for an Achilles tendon injury: Stretch and strengthen.
Article by Brad Walker. Brad is an internationally recognized stretching and sports injury consultant with 20 years of practical experience in the field of health and fitness industry. Brad is a Health Science graduate of the University of New England and postgraduate accreditations in athletics, swimming and triathlon coaching. He has worked with elite sport and world champion athletes and lectures for Sports Medicine Australia on injury prevention. Brad is also the author of Stretching Handbook, The Anatomy of Stretching and The Anatomy of Sports Injuries.

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