I dealt with achilles issues for 3 years. When I say dealt I mean there was no working around it for 3 years it hurt every single day to get out of bed and walk. On my best days during that time I could walk 3 miles with my dog. It was terrible. I did everything from PRP to contrast baths to rolling out and doing everything I could possible think of. I saw specialist after specialist and nothing improved. I did eccentrics for 2 years and nothing changed. THEN, yep that is the cool part THEN I was doing research, like I did every night during those 3 years, and found this lady Karin Grävare Silbernage. I emailed her and we set up a phone consult. She was amazing. I had sent her my notes and therapies and exercises and this is what she said. Granted everyone is different so I don't know your exact story. "You have a short soleus it is not good or bad it is just the way you were made. Stop doing the eccentrics off of a stair and just do them on flat ground. Eventually, when all pain has gone away(she meant to the touch and jogging) then you can do them off of a stair. I did this among some other rehab stuff that was very subtle. The big game changer with this is I did dry needling with it. Not acupuncture I had done that for 4 months weekly and didn't change. Dry needling where they went in and poked around the needle got stuck and the muscle contracted and bent it, so painful more so than the PRP. That night I couldn't walk. The next day I walked without pain. I did dry needling weekly for 4 months. It hurt like hell every single time but then things turned!!!!!

In 3 weeks I was improving. In 6 weeks I was jogging(hadn't done that in 3 years) for 15 minutes. At 4 months I did a sprint triathlon. This year I have done 2 Olys and a trail race. My run times are faster prior to being injured. I run whenever I want volume/intensity aren't limiters.

That is my .02