Advice for nagging Achilles injury?

Get a stainless steal massage tool off amazon and massage it with some sort of lotion best of luck. And do stregth exercises and be patient.

Do more eccentric heel drops. Do hundreds a day. Your Achilles hurts because the scar tissue isn’t aligned with the fascia/tendon. Eccentric heel drops fix this. You just might have to keep adding more and more till it finally fixes itself. Trust me, I had Achilles tendinitis for months. I did 30 heel drops a day, and sure it got a little better, but it wasn’t till I started doing 200 total per day that it got better. You don’t even need to build into it really. Just start doing hella.

Fastest Turte wrote:

Get a stainless steal massage tool off amazon and massage it with some sort of lotion best of luck. And do stregth exercises and be patient.

My god please don’t do this, you’ll just irate the tendon.

You need to build up load on your Achilles.

2x a week single leg weight calf raises 10 reps one set. Build the weight up till you are at half your body weight. Don’t overdo it! No need for below (off a step).

I agree with the graston technique. You most likely need to break up the scar tissue. Do this 3 x a week. stretch well after then bio freeze and ice several times a day afterwards. I am usually back running at full potential within weeks after doing this.

Totally agree with sbhxzb: Terrible idea to massage the tendon directly! I did this years ago on the advice of a quack chiropractor and screwed up the achilles for months. It converted a mild tendon issue to a full-fledged injury that took months to heal.

yesssssirski wrote:

Do more eccentric heel drops. Do hundreds a day. Your Achilles hurts because the scar tissue isn’t aligned with the fascia/tendon. Eccentric heel drops fix this. You just might have to keep adding more and more till it finally fixes itself. Trust me, I had Achilles tendinitis for months. I did 30 heel drops a day, and sure it got a little better, but it wasn’t till I started doing 200 total per day that it got better. You don’t even need to build into it really. Just start doing hella.

Maybe that’s the trick. I only do like 3x15 and call it a day. I’ll definitely try that out. Thank you so much

I recently had to take a couple months off for a bout of Achilles tendonitis. Stretching, heel drops, and not trying to run on it probably would've got me back much sooner as others have said. Anyway, good luck with your recovery and I hope you get back to running soon.

OP keep resting it, you're doing a good job. But stop doing the heel drops now.

And get one of these, they are miracle workers and they will work much better than a massage roller for keeping your calves loose, which alleviates pressure on your Achilles:

6" HEAVY DUTY METAL SPRING CLAMP

just clamp it on your calf in different spots and leave it for a while, to get knots out.

It also works great for squeezing lactic acid out of your calves after a workout, so you're going to want to make it a staple of your toolkit going forward.