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Find out about the treatment, the procedure and the rehabilitation techniques that will help you recover
Phase two - Under normal circumstances, your active recovery will commence 4-6 weeks after surgery. You will be asked to wear a walking boot with a heel lift. Over several weeks, your surgeon will reduce the amount of heel lift available in the walking boot to gradually impart a stretch on the repairing Achilles tendon. Your physiotherapist will guide you to appropriately increase the amount of weight you take on your operated leg over this period. They will also guide you through some exercises involving resistance/loading exercises for your calf muscles and Achilles tendon to promote accelerated healing of the tendon repair and prevent excessive post-operative muscle wasting.
Phase three - The third phase of your recovery will begin approximately three months post-operatively when under normal circumstances you will be asked to commence walking without the boot and heel raises. Your physiotherapist will prescribe you some appropriate, weight-bearing strengthening exercises which specifically target the calf muscles known as heel raises. As calf muscle strength and flexibility improve, your physiotherapist will advise you to gradually increase the weight you perform these exercises with. Once the strength of your operated leg is equal to your non-operated leg, activity or sport.
Consultant Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon
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