Tendonitis

The condition of a ruptured Achilles tendon can be dealt with but it needs extreme care. If the treatment is not followed to the letter, along with the advice or your doctor, your ruptured Achilles tendon can end up even worse than before you started trying to put it right.

It is best that you know all about what a ruptured Achilles tendon is caused by and exactly what it involves prior to treating your condition.

What is a Ruptured Achilles Tendon?

This is the name of the injury sustained when your Achilles tendon, located in your foot is ruptured. The shooting pain you experience in your ankle area will follow the sound of a noticeable snap or pop sound.

Quite regularly people think they have broken their ankle or foot when they have in fact ruptured their Achilles tendon and this is because the pain can be very similar, even though the two injuries are very different.

Obviously, the first thing you should do when this happens is seek medical advice. The reason for this is that receiving immediate treatment is the only way you will make a full recovery from this kind of injury.

Treatment

Following medical advice you will be happy to discover there many options open to you as far as treatment of a ruptured Achilles tendon is concerned and one of the first things you doctor is likely to suggest is total rest. To ensure you have the necessary rest you will need to elevate your leg and stay off it for a few days at least.

Your treatment will be determined by the severity of your injury and may be surgical or non surgical, depending on how you react to the medication you are prescribed and any therapy you are given.

More often than not, however, the treatment for this kind of injury tends to be the surgical kind. The operation involves an incision being made into the back of the lower part of your leg allowing the tendon to be stitched back together where it has torn. Depending on the condition of the torn tendon, it may be necessary to strengthen the area with other tendons.

It is important that you work as a team with your doctor and listen to the advice offered. The doctor will give you instructions about what you have to do to ensure things get back to normal and will also offer you help in how to avoid the injury happening again in the future.