Ruptured achilles tendon

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by ckissick

A sedentary lifestyle.

no

keep yourself flexible, maintain adequate ankle range of motion, specifically with respect to dorsiflexion

Stretch your GD calf muscles out a few times a day, every day, actually ought to be doing yoga or tai chi, you fat, fish belly white, old bastages

The adverse impact on tendon by quinolone antibiotics is real. I have a patient that suffered a TA rupture after taking it. You see the rupture happen at the place it typically does, at the area that is the most distant from the blood supply at the muscle and the bone. It can result in a calcaneal gait. Feel on the back, and the bottom of your heel. The bottom is kind of squishy, the back is bony. When the Achilles is not pulling, the heel will rotate such that the back of it becomes the bottom.

It can be difficult to get a surgical procedure to heal if there is a relatively poor blood supply and the area moves a lot. I have had a few at the wound clinic that were challenging, can think of one I never saw heal, despite some fairly exotic treatment.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Tobra

no

The adverse impact on tendon by quinolone antibiotics is real. I have a patient that suffered a TA rupture after taking it..

I find this kind of adverse reaction remarkable. Tragically so. I have, for as long as I can remember tried to advise people (I was a pharma chemist) that while medication is often the only way to go they must bear in mind how powerful meds are. Think of it, a few milligrams of drug in a 50 kilogram body having such a profound impact.

[Tobra]

Dosage is even tinier with the hormone replacement drugs, micrograms.

The drug interactions are what spooks me, especially if they are on coumadin

[Mike Andrew]

1988,38 years old: 30 minutes into 2nd half of rugby match. Scooped loose ball, headed for try line and 2nd push off right foot it went. 3 point landing-face left knee and shoulder. Surgery 3 days later and weeks in a cast before I got the high heeled shoe for a few weeks. Driving was a pain with my left foot, but mastered it ( Dad was a rural mailman so possibly genetic skill).
Therapy was no damn treat but I made it back onto the pitch late May the following season for a half and resumed full time that fall. Played another 8 years with no issues with the tendon. No problems now at 66 but I still stretch regularly and am still very physically active. Of course, I stretched then too but....
Not a fun injury but certainly not insurmountable. Good luck.

[RKDinOKC]

Had a messed up right foot for 2 years and was instructed no to put weight on or use it or I would lose it. Drove a Range Rover left footed with my right foot resting on the dash. Got around my resting my right knee on a walker with wheels.

At a little over a year into it I drove my 928 400 miles to visit my sister. It was a 5 speed so had to use my right foot some. But both me and my sister live just a mile off the highway and on the highway I used the cruise control to accelerate or decelerate foot up, never touching the accelerator exept at the beginning and end of the highway trip. When I got back home I noticed my foot had started bleeding and it scared the bejezus out of me. Went back to left foot driving right foot on the dash the Rover and didn't take anymore 928 trips until got the docs 100% release.

[petrolhead611]

Oh, it seems quite few Pelicanites have suffered this.
I have never smoked, very rarely have ever drunk alchohol at all, and have kept active all my life(am now 68). Guess I can kiss goodbye to the next summer season of Autosolo(already cancelled my 3 remaining winter Autosolo entries), and my other sport of target archery is seemingly(from what I read above) going to be a no go too through at least most of 2018( and I just bought a new American flatbow too( made in Sherwood forest from American oak which is the majority in that area, not English oak).

[jorian]

I wouldn't count on the winter season of driving events but you'll probably be fine for next summer.