Talk:Achilles tendinitis
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It seems quite odd to me that both heel pads and low heels could be thought beneficial for this condition, since one increases and one decreases pressure on the tendon.
Walter Horn
209.6.113.202 (talk) 16:25, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
I suspect that the benefits account for different aspects.
Heel pads reduce the stretching of the achilles, which might be a necessary step in ensuring that you don't immediately end up with achilles rupture. To make sure you don't reinjure the achilles, or rupture it at a later date, you need to make sure that the achilles is long enough to withstand whatever it needs to, i.e., it needs stretched, which means that flat heels are needed. Yeatesi (talk) 08:15, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Cure
For a good review of how to cure this debilitation read "My Achilles Heel: How to Overcome Achilles Tendinopathy" available on Amazon.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.79.5 (talk) 20:30, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Footnotes
This article needs the footnotes to be cleaned up with ref tags for an automatic reflist.173.206.177.118 (talk) 19:02, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Refs
Per WP:MEDRS we should use either review article or major textbooks not primary research papers. Pubmed has a tab that will limit your search to review articles. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:41, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
