Treat Your Own Achilles Tendinitis - Softcover

Jim Johnson

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9781457510922: Treat Your Own Achilles Tendinitis

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ISBN 10: 1457510928 ISBN 13: 9781457510922

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC, 2012

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Drawing from the latest research, Treat Your Own Achilles Tendinitis will quickly teach you everything you need to know about getting rid of a painful Achilles tendon. In less than 100 pages, readers will learn...

* the detailed structure of the Achilles tendon and how it works

* what can go wrong with the Achilles tendon

* why the most common problem is one of failed healing, not inflammation

* how to do eccentric exercises that actually repair tendon damage

* how much activity is safe to do while your Achilles tendon is healing

Based on randomized controlled trials from peer-reviewed journals, Treat Your Own Achilles Tendinitis offers a simple, yet effective program that can be done in the privacy of one's home without equipment. And perhaps best of all, it takes just a few minutes a day to do!

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� Chapter 1 "The Problem Isn't What You Think It Is" goes over the anatomy you need to know about in order to treat your own Achilles tendinitis. There's lots of pictures here, so it's not as boring as you might think. After you learn a bit about how your Achilles tendon is put together, you might find yourself wondering if your problem is really paratenonitis, tendinosis, or a perhaps a tear in the Achilles. This chapter will help you sort things out, and ends with a quick test you can do to determine if your Achilles is torn.

� Chapter 2 "What Went Wrong With Your Achilles Tendon" discusses just that - what went wrong. This section briefly reviews the results of an exhaustive literature search I did on all the biopsy studies done on people with long-term Achilles pain. Turns out the problem with the tendon has little to do with inflammation - but everything to do with a failed healing response. Now that this chapter pinpoints the problem with the Achilles, the pain can be properly treated.

� Chapter 3 "What Will Happen To Your Achilles Tendon If You Do Nothing" will tell you what happens if you take the "wait and see" approach to Achilles tendinitis. When is it best to leave an Achilles tendinitis problem alone and let Mother Nature take over?

� Chapter 4 is titled "A Surefire Way To Help Your Achilles Tendon Finally Heal" and is the meat and potatoes of the book. Here you learn about "eccentrics", and how this form of exercise has been proven in study after study over the years to effectively cure Achilles tendinitis. The chapter ends with 12-weeks' worth of exercise sheets to help you chart your exercise progress and stay on track.

� Chapter 5 "How Much Activity Is Safe To Do While You're Recovering" shows you how to avoid making the big mistake of overdoing it as your Achilles is trying to heal and get better. Do you have to stop all activities? What can you do, and how much is too much? You'll know by the end of this chapter.

� Chapter 6 "Measuring Your Progress" contains a handy scale you use to track the progress of your healing Achilles tendon. After that, the book ends with a reference section - know that this entire book is completely based on published research studies from peer-reviewed journals and randomized controlled trials that make up the book's content.

� At a mere 66 pages, this book can be read in several hours time and leaves the reader with all the tools they need to get rid of their Achilles pain - and keep it from ever coming back again.

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About the Author:

JIM JOHNSON, P.T. is a physical therapist who has spent over twenty-one years treating both inpatients and outpatients with a wide range of pain and mobility problems. He has written many books based completely on published research and controlled trials including The Sixty-Second Motivator, Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff, The 5-Minute Plantar Fasciitis Solution, Treat Your Own Knee Arthritis, Exercise Beats Depression, Treat Your Own Tennis Elbow, and Treat Your Own Spinal Stenosis. His books have been translated into other languages and thousands of copies have been sold worldwide.

Besides working full-time as a clinician in a major teaching hospital and writing books, Jim Johnson is a certified Clinical Instructor by the American Physical Therapy Association and enjoys teaching physical therapy students from all over the United States.

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