Anyone here ever deal with Achilles pain?

[GolovKing]

For the last several months I have been dealing with my pain in my Achilles tendon. First it was my left but then I started doing rehab exercises for both sides, my left got better but now my right is causing me more pain. I'm wondering if I should stop doing deep calf raises as I've read that they aggravate the Achilles tendon too much. Or maybe just stop going deep until the pain goes down?

 

[vision1]

Any chance you've been on antibiotics? Look up "Fluoroquinolone induced Tendinopathy"
I once had to deal with that. Either way I would reduce Achilles strain until the pain subsides and then rehab/work your way back up. Yes, stop deep calf raises and any deep dorsiflexion stretch for now.

 

[GolovKing]

Any chance you've been on antibiotics? Look up "Fluoroquinolone induced Tendinopathy"
I once had to deal with that. Either way I would reduce Achilles strain until the pain subsides and then rehab/work your way back up. Yes, stop deep calf raises and any deep dorsiflexion stretch for now.

No antibiotics. Seeing as how my Achilles have been bothering me for a year now and they mainly flair up when I do deep calf raises, am I just going to have to stay away from them now permanently? I don't want to but I'm starting to think that might be the case

 

[DEVILsSON]

Yes stop doing things that aggravate it. Tendons unassisted take a long time to heal. Potentially months.

Look into BPC157.

 

[Armand Ruiz]

Oh, you reminded me of that.

Yes, about 2 or 3 years ago I suffered from Achilles pain. I was jogging when suddenly I heard something strange in my left foot and suddenly it started to hurt. When I got home my Achilles heel was swollen and I couldn't even move my foot. I was on bed rest for 2 or 3 weeks taking anti-inflammatories and my wife gave me some massages.

I recommend you leave the deep calf raises for a while, at least until you feel better.

 

[GolovKing]

Oh, you reminded me of that.

Yes, about 2 or 3 years ago I suffered from Achilles pain. I was jogging when suddenly I heard something strange in my left foot and suddenly it started to hurt. When I got home my Achilles heel was swollen and I couldn't even move my foot. I was on bed rest for 2 or 3 weeks taking anti-inflammatories and my wife gave me some massages.

I recommend you leave the deep calf raises for a while, at least until you feel better.

I wonder if maybe deep calf raises are just inherently bad and if maybe I should just stop doing them altogether. I'm almost certain what caused the achilles pain was me doing calf raises below parallel as well as running up hill

 

[KeepingItReal]

For the last several months I have been dealing with my pain in my Achilles tendon. First it was my left but then I started doing rehab exercises for both sides, my left got better but now my right is causing me more pain. I'm wondering if I should stop doing deep calf raises as I've read that they aggravate the Achilles tendon too much. Or maybe just stop going deep until the pain goes down?

Are you training the opposite muscle group? If not this can lead to muscle imbalances which will inevitably lead to pain and injury.

At 2:27 of this video you see how to train the opposite muscle group of the calves.

 

[Ronnan72]

Yep, overdone it with single leg, standing calf raises. Forced out a few extra reps when my leg was clearly too fatigued. Had pain for a few months, that was around 2019. I felt a twinge again a couple of months ago buts that's it. It healed well considering I was 47 when it happened.

I'm much more careful now doing standing raises and concentrate on form rather than volume. After the standing raises I go straight to seated raises and rep out, they're appear to less risky in my experience.