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🔹The 🔑 To Reducing Achilles Ruptures🔹 Achilles tendon ruptures are many athletes worst fear. This can be a brutal injury that is not only painful but also comes with a long rehabilitation period. Achilles ruptures occurring most commonly in men participating in recreational activities between the ages of 30-50 but also happen frequently in competitive athletes at a younger age. The key to reducing the occurrence of achilles ruptures is progressive load management and regular loading of the Achilles tendon itself. Tendon’s that are regularly loaded with both slow heavy strength exercises and elastic power exercises will be strong and resilient to impact. When we rapidly go from periods of no tendon loading to high amounts of impact we run the risk of developing tendionpathy or worse, acute tendon rupture. We usually see an Achilles injuries occur when a competitive athletes returns to an activity after a long lay off or when a recreational athlete jumps into an activity they haven’t done in a long time. This is often because the local tissues haven’t been progressively trained and prepared to withstand the forces that they have been exposed to. If you want to participate in recreational sports or competitive athlete returning to sport following a period of downtime it is important to take a slow, stepwise approach to returning to elastic focused activities. Start with moderate impact activities like skipping and ladder drills and begin introducing higher impact and elastic focused plyometric activities over time. Slow, progressive loading will allow the tendon to adapt to the stress over time and get stronger and help you to avoid a potential tendinopathy from the training process. #achilles #achilllesrupture