Any advice post operation.

Ruptured going off a diving board. Anyone go through this before? Any advice post operation.

I’d have expected it to hurt more than it has since the accident.

My putting.

Anyone wanna call Jake Burger and get his input?

Ruptured the right one at 37, the left at 40, both playing basketball. First surgery went very well, just a long, frustrating rehab/recovery. Second one I got the on-call surgeon, complete jerk who was terrible, did a terrible job (left foot is almost a full size larger in shoes due to knot on my tendon).

I did not recognize the first injury for what it was, walked on it that day, saw the surgeon three days later, two more until surgery. Not all that painful. The second was more psychological pain, knowing the rehab I was about to face. Never did recover right, but that may be as much due to my age.

Good luck, hope yours comes out better. I suggest using the plantar facia boot to sleep in when you get to remove the cast/walking boot at night. It holds your toes up towards your knee, stretching your plantar fascia tendon out so you will have less foot pain when walking in normal shoes.

Get on the GH.

not achilles but i can speak for the ACL reconstruction.
Ice, Ice, Ice. Buy one or two of these from Amazon.

Do everything your PT says and do it daily. Work on natural walking motion as much as possible (when told to do so)

That sucks.

Next time, my therapist was a guy.

Good luck, Turd! I hope everything goes as well as possible tomorrow.

Good luck, Turd! I hope everything goes as well as possible tomorrow.

Yes, best of luck tomorrow, TF. Will they let you keep your giant foam cowboy hat on during surgery?

I did not start any rehab until the hard cast came off- there is no movement with that on, and no weight bearing allowed. Six weeks plus a few days. They pulled the staples when the hard cast came off, I think. My body does not seem to dissolve the internal sutures that should dissolve- they tend to work their way to the surface. This happened with two of my three hernia repairs and the second achilles. I'm not sure if it was the internal, dissolvable suture on my tendon sheath or if some of the titanium wire used to stitch the tendon back together, but the end of one of them was poking through the skin. This left an open sore, which got infected several times, keeping it from healing. I was on the last step before a skin graft off of my back. They finally trimmed whatever it was off and it healed for a while.

The rehab started shortly after the cast was replaced by a walking boot. Very low impact at first, some with the boot on, most without. Lots of just stretching and massage.Your whole leg takes a hit- with no load bearing the thigh muscle shrinks, and the calf muscle is non-existent afterwards. I still walk with a limp, but that may be from no ACL in my right knee, or the achilles, not sure. Now I wobble like a weeble.

I had hops after the first one tore and I rehabbed it, not dunking any more but decent for a white guy at 37. The second one, added in with a switch to my current job and it's rotating day/night shift work, has added about 70 pounds in 15 years. Watch your diet at first, most cardio activity is not possible on one leg.