Brad and Mike demonstrate how to get pain relief fast with your achilles tendon.

Medically reviewed by Laura Campedelli, DPT Key Takeaways Stretching and strengthening the calf muscles with exercises can relieve Achilles tendonitis.Use heavy weight-bearing exercises as part of ...

MOST REINFECTIONS IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR. DO YOU NOTICE A BUMP ON THE BACK OF YOUR HEEL? IF YOU DO, YOU MAY HAVE PUMP BUMP. IT’S MEDICALLY KNOWN AS HAGLUND’S DEFORMITY. MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ...

This week we are going to divest from the topic of rheumatology to a specific tendon pathology in the ankle and foot, that of Achilles tendinitis and tendinosis. Achilles tendinitis is an inflammation ...

A Haglund’s deformity can be referred to by a number of different names such as bony enlargement, prominent bump, pump bump, or retrocalcaneal exostosis. Just as confusing is how an excision of the ...

Whether surgical repair of an acute Achilles’ tendon rupture by an open-repair or minimally invasive approach is associated with better outcomes than nonsurgical treatment is not clear. We performed a ...