Achilles Tendon Pain

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so i over trained last xc season(went from never running in my life to 12 miles a day, atleast 5 days a week)..and i never took time off to recover from my injuries, i just ran through them.
same with track. i had xc practice in the morning, track after school, then i ran on my own.
this summer i was forced to take off and heal. i did, and lost alot of muscle doing so(i also went on extreme dieting, which i now regret). so my times were really slow when i started running 2 weeks ago. i didnt over train though, about 2-3 miles a day, thats it.but then i got tendonitis in my knee!! i took a week off and thought it healed, but i had a really short run today and my knee is hurting again! before, my injuries were mainly in my ankles/calves, no real probs with my knee.
how do i stop this? prevent it? what cures tendonitis? how do i run through it?
the other kids on the team have been running all summer and already competing!! i havent run at all and am so out of shape!! how do i get in shape quicker so i dont look so slow at meets?
thanks!

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I’m a 41 year old, 210 pound 5′.9″ male, who falls into the “weekend warrior” category (group sports every now and then). I love Ultimate Frisbee and I’ve played with resulting mild injuries from time to time, for over exertion or just the result of not being constant enough with routine exercise, not taking of the extra weight, or in most cases stupidly forgetting that at my age warming up and stretching are the most important parts of the whole workout (never did it in my 20’s or 30’s, so I’m also paying for it now).
I’ve had mostly tendinitis issues, related to knee joints, ankles and heels. Sometimes some other part of my body aches, maybe from a fall, maybe from a sudden hard movement, but in most cases, it’s my feet (I know, the weight).
The past couple of months I’ve been relocated far from home and because of that my “two times a week” of two hour hard running games was halted. But I was really happy when I made contact with a local Ultimate Frisbee league and so I started into a one day a week routine. I honestly played less intense, aware of my being in less shape than before, specially because the hours the games started didn’t allow for much (if any) warm up.
Anyway, last Friday night I warmed up for about five minutes and then ran into the field as a point was scored against my team. On my first strong run a disk was thrown at me, but away from my diagonal direction (I was running left and the disk flew to my right and back). I tried to change directions but I felt a popping crunching sensation on my knee and all of the sudden I was on the grass. I felt like my left knee had given out slightly forwards and to the left. I’m not really sure, because it was so quick.
I felt pain, strong pain. And all that was going through my mind was “NO! not my KNEE!!”
I’ve heard so many terrible accounts of knee injuries and unsuccessful surgeries (a friend of mine even had to have his knee “welded” and he walks with a permanently straight leg now) that it was the worst thing in my mind that could have happened to me. In my pain I asked a team mate to pull on my leg a bit because I couldn’t stretch it. Finally I did and I got up, not wanting to hold up the game and hoping stupidly it was nothing. I stretched it out, jumped a few times, shook it and the pain was gone and I could walk and run… sooooo, I started to play some more (yeah, I know…) and on my first run, pop!-ground!
That’s when I finally realized something definitely wasn’t right.
I walked out of the field limping and the wife of a team mate, who had actually been telling me her own foul tale regarding her knee injury and following failed surgery a week before told me to try to crouch and get up again. I could. Actually all I felt on my knee was tightness. No burning. No pain. I hoped for the best.
I sat out a bit of the game, and decided it was time to go home.
Our company housing fridge had died the day before and we where waiting on a new one Saturday afternoon, so there was no ice to be had.
So I simply showered and went to bed. I guess I wasn’t doing anything about it because I wanted it to be nothing, fear can make you be stupid that way.
The next day of course, my knee had swollen up. Well, actually not my knee, but the point where the quadriceps meets the knee. I realized then I had to have someone look at it.
As I said, I’m temporarily relocated for work reasons, out of my country. So insurance is a bit complicated. I made all the necessary calls and went to a walk in clinic.
I had x-rays done, the doctor examined me, for resistance and strength. He tried extracting fluid from my knee but there was basically none to extract. He didn’t have an answer for me, all he said was: Rest it, wrap it. Time for ice is over. Take Motrin, and these pain killers (as I said I don’t have any pain, except if I do a wrong twist). He told me that if it gets worse, to go back or see a speciallist and maybe get an MRI, because if it’s tissue, it won’t show on the x-rays.
So, I read up a bit on google.
And I found info on patellar tendon injuries. I believe it’s not a rupture, at least not a serious one. It reminds me more of the times I’ve twisted my ankles (when I used to play basketball in my 20’s). This could be the final result of being stupid about my knees. I over did at some point, when I was about 23, using that machine where you sit and lift the lower part of your legs against weight, showing off. Then I played for years basketball, never warming up or stretching. And so, in my late 30’s I’ve had very weak knees, having a hard time with stairs mostly. Also one of those mild injuries I’ve mentioned is a recurring plantar fasciitis, which had me limping for two weeks, putting additional preasure for over compensating precisely on the leg where I ended up hurting my knee.
I believe it’s related to the patellar tendon because of where I have the swelling, and because of the other things I’ve mentioned. But I also believe it’s not a seriou

ok so i have had knee pains since around christmas.. and this spring i went to a trainer at my school.. he said it sounds like tendinitis and i should wrap my knee.. but this didnt help much and the pain is in different spots sometimes.. also right before i got this knee pain i used to have really bad pain in my ankles which went away at almost the same time as i got this.. so if anyone knows what this could be at all so i can look into it.. im going to a doctor on thursday but ive been trying forever to get my parents to take me to one and im really hoping it isnt too late… but thanks 10 points for best answer

A little background info…I injured my knee in Oct. Had an MRI diagnosis was a sublaxation of the patellar tendon, patellar tendonitis and MCL sprain. I have gone through 4 months of physical therapy and I am currenlty recieving injections of sodium hyaluran.

Here is my newest issue. If I am sitting in a chair and I extend my leg out and then bend it back down my entire thigh shakes. It’s not a gentle shake its kind of a rough shake. I showed my dr and said he had never seen a leg move like that and he felt around while I did it over and over again. He suggested that I work on strenthing my quad muscle to see if that woudl help. I’m pretty sure he couldn’t really figure out why it was happening. I work out on a regular basis and have been doing the at home exercises that the therapist gave me. So im not sure that the quad muscle is the issue but I am willing to try to fix it. I have two more shots so he gave me two weeks to try to fix it or it was back to physical therapy I go.

I use the weight machines at the gym, do leg lifts at all angles with ankle weights, wall sits, small squats (I go as far as I can without great pain), the occasional lunges (once again there is a pain factor there) and I use the eliptical, tredmil, and bike.

Are there any other exercises I should try to work on my quads? If you are a therapist or a doctor have you ever seen anyones leg shake like I described above and what was your diagnosis?

Thanks!

I am on my feet at work all the time so I have had tendonitis before but this feels different. I know it is not my back because I have been doing my posture exercises and it has not helped. The pain is a dull pain that starts above my toes and goes around my ankle up the left side of my calf. My foot is hot but not really swollen. The veins seem to be bulging out as if I have worked a 16-hour shift but I have not worked since 5 am yesterday morning. No matter what position I put, it in it does not seem to help. I have taken 800 mg of Motrin and it has not helped. I regularly retain water in both my legs but it does seem stiff when I move my foot from a pointing position to a flexed position. Now under my foot it is starting to tingle. My toes and the padded part of my foot right below my toes. I have good pedal pulses and no redness.

At the beginning of this March or so, I was wearing my walking boot (I have left posterior tibial tendonitis), and while in the boot, I was reaching across my bed to get something. I was standing about, and the boot didn’t allow for much flexibility, so I kept my left leg completely straight when reaching across my bed, I think I bent my left knee inward (hyperextended it, I guess?). I did that like three nights in a row that week. How stupid! I didn’t hear any popping noises or anything and didn’t begin experiencing pain in my inner left knee until a week or two after I did that. Since then, the pain hasn’t subsided. It is only slightly better, but not much. I saw an orthopedist a few weeks after the pain started. He ordered X-rays and said that my bones and ligaments look normal and strong. He just recommended that I go to PT, which I have been doing for 3 or 4 weeks now for both my left knee and left ankle. My ankles seem to feel better because I have new sneakers and custom orthotics. However, my knee is showing no improvement despite all of the strengthening exercises my PT and I have been doing. I scheduled a follow-up with my orthopedist for this Thursday, but I am just so frustrated. What could be wrong, and what if no one can figure it out? I am always so worried that I am going to have these injuries forever and never be able to do what I love most again, which is to run and exercise. I guess I should also mention that I am recovering my anorexia. I don’t know if that has any affect on my healing time. I am 5′4″, 21-years-old, and am about 100-105 pounds. At my lowest, I was 76, so I am much better than then, but I managed to gain back all of the weight that I lost. I did that last summer (2009), so I’ve been at a healthier weight for almost a year now. Shouldn’t my body be better internally? Would gaining more weight help? Everyone tells me I need to gain a lot more, but I cannot see that at all and am so scared to do so. I’m sorry this is so long, but any help would be greatly appreciated. Take good care.=)

At the beginning of this March or so, I was wearing my walking boot (I have left posterior tibial tendonitis), and while in the boot, I was reaching across my bed to get something. I was standing about, and the boot didn’t allow for much flexibility, so I kept my left leg completely straight when reaching across my bed, I think I bent my left knee inward (hyperextended it, I guess?). I did that like three nights in a row that week. How stupid! I didn’t hear any popping noises or anything and didn’t begin experiencing pain in my inner left knee until a week or two after I did that. Since then, the pain hasn’t subsided. It is only slightly better, but not much. I saw an orthopedist a few weeks after the pain started. He ordered X-rays and said that my bones and ligaments look normal and strong. He just recommended that I go to PT, which I have been doing for 3 or 4 weeks now for both my left knee and left ankle. My ankles seem to feel better because I have new sneakers and custom orthotics. However, my knee is showing no improvement despite all of the strengthening exercises my PT and I have been doing. I scheduled a follow-up with my orthopedist for this Thursday, but I am just so frustrated. What could be wrong, and what if no one can figure it out? I am always so worried that I am going to have these injuries forever and never be able to do what I love most again, which is to run and exercise. I guess I should also mention that I am recovering my anorexia. I don’t know if that has any affect on my healing time. I am 5′4″, 21-years-old, and am about 100-105 pounds. At my lowest, I was 76, so I am much better than then, but I managed to gain back all of the weight that I lost. I did that last summer (2009), so I’ve been at a healthier weight for almost a year now. Shouldn’t my body be better internally? Would gaining more weight help? Everyone tells me I need to gain a lot more, but I cannot see that at all and am so scared to do so. I’m sorry this is so long, but any help would be greatly appreciated. Take good care.=)