how long does achilles tendonitis take to heal.

achilles tendonitis due to high mileage routines ruined my last year completely and nothing seemed to help.

at least i mastered the situation thereby:

1. stop running (it´s hard, i know) plus a few days antiphlogistics and this:

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/injuryprevention/qt/Achilles-Strengthening.htm

2. stay fit and go cycling for a while. start running again if you feel no pain when you get up in the morning, start running step by step (at first one day a moderate run, next day cycling and so on), listen to your body.

3. watch your nutrition: reduce meat (a main factor in the game in my point of view).

4. after a successful healing process continue running with another training program: proper recovery, avoid overload by crosstraining instead of running everyday and focus on running if doing quality workouts, otherwise the achilles tendonitis might become chronical.

Its weird, I've had achilles problems 3-4 times but it never seems to last more that a week so I guess I catch it early and it doesn't get too bad. If my achilles is just sore, I run on it but when it hurts I don't.

I think the eccentric calf raises have been great for injury prevention, I do them several times a week along with calf foam rolling.

I have achilles tendonitis where the achilles tendon connects to the heel bone. I have been unable to walk normally for 2 days. I massaged the painful area around my heel bone and that really helped a lot.

saved my season. increased blood flow and provided some stability.

Start Gua Sha now. Also make sure when you are doing rehab exercises below pain level. I wasted about a month with eccentric heel drops above the pain level. Then I switched to calf raises with as much weight as I could shift onto the affected leg, always stay below pain. Above pain = Damage. Below pain = good stimulus. I guess it's okay to be uncomfortable, but stay away from pain.

I had it on/off for about 2 years until a chiropractor told me that my legs were slightly different lengths; he adjusted my pelvis and I've been OK since then (knock on wood). Even when I did have it, I was still able to run with it; it actually felt a lot better while I was running and you have to run enough to get some blood flow into that area. You need to ice it after every run and do those eccentric heel drops. I actually trained for Boston a couple years ago with it, and ran every day for 4 months, fairly high mileage, ran the race in trainers (my racing flats don't have enough cushioning for the heel over that long of a distance) and I set a marathon PR that year. But it only hurt in the mornings when I got out of bed (mostly) so I don't consider it to be a serious injury.