A therapy that aims to heal injured body tissue with targeted sound waves may bring pain relief to people with chronically injured hamstring tendons, a small study of professional athletes suggests.

The gold-standard treatment for Achilles tendinopathy is a progressive series of calf-strengthening exercises. Yet even with ...

When NICE looked at the evidence, it decided that there was not enough evidence to know how well extracorporeal shockwave therapy works for Achilles tendinopathy. The 5 studies that NICE looked at ...

If I were lucky enough to be on Jayson Tatum’s rehab team following his Achilles tendon repair, I’d be pulling out all the stops to help him recover quickly, fully, and most importantly, safely. An ...

If you feel like you’ve just been kicked in the bottom of your heel, but turn around to see nobody there, you may be experiencing an issue with your Achilles tendon or plantar fascia. Ever since the ...

The Achilles tendon is the largest and strongest tendon in the human body and may be the most important tendon in the foot or leg for an athlete. One study found that acute and chronic Achilles tendon ...

significant to me personally and something which is also very clinically interesting. The topic is proliferation therapy or “Prolo Therapy” Prolo therapy is the injection of an irritant solution into ...

The treatment, known as shockwave therapy, delivers pulses of sound waves to areas of injured body tissue, via a hand-held probe placed on the skin. Shockwaves have also been studied, with mixed ...

Achilles tendinopathy is pain and inflammation of the tendon at the back of the heel. It is usually caused by injury or overuse. Symptoms include pain, swelling, weakness and stiffness, and tenderness ...