NFL Torn Achilles count

I'd say increased weight, but the thinner guys are experiencing this as well..I used to repair those buggers and I don't recall anything in particular to serve as a common denominator

but not in camps, so feel free to
kick me off this thread:

I'd been doing a lot of treadmill work with the
slope set high, did a July 4th road race, was
working out at the track. Back of my "heel" started
being painful in the morning when I first got out
of bed, painful off and on during the day, but not
especially after a run, but next morning yes.

Realized it wasn't the heel, but the bone just above
the heel that sits directly back of the ankle bone
(calcanus?). Painful for several weeks.

Then we had house guests, one of whom, an in shape
athletic 45 year old paddle tennis player who just
had surgery to REATTACH HER ACHILLES TO THE HEEL.

Oh, s..t!! Has anyone had that area of pain and still
worked through it without boot immobilization and/or
surgery?

And, yes, lots of achilles issues in camps...(: back to
your regularly scheduled thread.

Eight Achilles tears works out to about 1 per day since the start of most training camps.

No idea why it would be happening.

common in the "weekend warrior" population. Have to imagine that the lay off had something to do with it.

Are the teams working the players harder this year because of the limited time to practice before pre-season starts??

A zero to warp speed acceleration with the lifting of the lockout will result in an unusual distribution of injuries. There's no individual substitute for live team practice.

players probably did plenty of lifting but less stretching than usual. The long-term result? Ouch.

I know you can't tell me much without actually having seen my Achilles. Here is my problem I hike a lot anywhere between 16 - 30 miles on my weekends. I have no problems with my Achilles. However if I jog 2 blocks it is killing me for 2 days and takes weeks for everything to go away. During those weeks I can still walk on it. It just lets me know I have to be careful. Again I know you can't tell me much. An thanks for any advice

here.

He calls out tight Calf muscles and running shoes Achilles supports (!) as a problem. I'd like to hear 56's and the other BBI's comments on the article...

better be carefull with Vick.

Sometimes behind the heel and in front of the Achilles a bursal sac can form and with activity such as you describe can become inflammed until it has a chance to calm down. If this is the case, Cortisone injection(s) into the area can reduce the bursitis. Most people think of bursitis in the shoulder, elbow, knee, hip, etc, but it occurs quite frequently in the foot and ankle.

Again, I'm guessing here without appropriate exam and tests..I would check it out. Sometimes an orthotic can shift the balance/weight to get you in proper alignment so that you won't be continuously abusing the same area.

That's one of a bunch of guesses I can give you, but not an uncommon problem, imo

I was worried about this when the lockout ended. Whether you're a pro athlete or weekend warrior, when you go from 0-100 instantaneously, you're playing with injury fire.

I'd like to see teams utilizing yoga more, especially encouraging players to practice yoga during the offseason. I know it sounds ridiculous, but anyone who has ever practiced yoga even for a short amount of time will attest to the increased flexibility yoga provides, and doing that for some time would probably keep a body conditioned enough to handle many of the intense and sudden rigors these accelerated camps are putting players' bodies through.

I practice yoga and go to the gym regularly, and I can only say that the quality of my workouts has improved greatly since incorporating yoga into my fitness regimen. My overall flexibility has improved, and one thing I've noticed is that my lung capacity has improved noticeably, which seems like a great advantage for an NFL player. I wish all of our guys had spent some time working on those things on their own during the lockout.

I think I saw something about Marvin Austin doing yoga on a little video about him that I saw posted here on BBI after he got drafted. If he's kept it up, I hope he encourages other players to follow suit.

And then have no professional forcing you to stretch.

time we'd already lost several players including Hixon for the year.

In reality OTAs and mini-camps were missed and camp was pushed back a week.

So, shouldn't it just be rookies and youngsters impacted? if you believe OTA's and mini-camp prevent injuries.

A friend of mine and I have been debating if there will be more injuries or not because of the lockout.

Just want to say Thank you. I'm going to get it checked-out. Doing some camping and hiking in Utah then I'm going to get it checked-out. Thanks you