Your chances are good, but a healthy dose of patience is always needed with achilles tendon or posterior heel issues (tendonitis, tendinosis, paratendinosis, insertional/enthesopathy pain, retrocalcaneal bursitis, etc.)
The worst diagnoses are the structural ones (rather than the typical overuse injuries that afflict us all) like a large bursal projection (i.e. Haglund's deformity or "pump bump") since these don't ever go away (same with insertional spurring - love it when people say they somehow got rid of/dissolved them ...) and are a constant source of irritation to the tendon. You can't stretch you calf/core out of these sometimes. Of course all that matters are your symptoms and I've seen very large Haglund's deformities that were completely asymptomatic.
This is precisely the reason for the inventions of what I call intermediate steps for those that fail traditional treatments/therapy, but either don't want or need more conventional surgery. Examples would be the Topaz procedure or the FAST technique.
http://www.topazinfo.com
http://www.tenexhealth.com/
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Fatigue is biochemical, not biomechanical.
- Andrew Coggan, PhD
The worst diagnoses are the structural ones (rather than the typical overuse injuries that afflict us all) like a large bursal projection (i.e. Haglund's deformity or "pump bump") since these don't ever go away (same with insertional spurring - love it when people say they somehow got rid of/dissolved them ...) and are a constant source of irritation to the tendon. You can't stretch you calf/core out of these sometimes. Of course all that matters are your symptoms and I've seen very large Haglund's deformities that were completely asymptomatic.
This is precisely the reason for the inventions of what I call intermediate steps for those that fail traditional treatments/therapy, but either don't want or need more conventional surgery. Examples would be the Topaz procedure or the FAST technique.
http://www.topazinfo.com
http://www.tenexhealth.com/
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Fatigue is biochemical, not biomechanical.
- Andrew Coggan, PhD