When Hakan Alfredson, an orthopedic surgeon and professor of sports medicine in Sweden, developed painful Achilles tendon problems in the mid-1990s, he asked his boss to book him in for surgery. His ...

Objectives To compare eccentric exercises as proposed by Alfredson with eccentric and static exercises as proposed by Stanish in the management of Achilles tendinopathy. Methods Patients with ...

If you've had Achilles tendon problems, you've probably heard to do heel drops off a step as part of your rehab. What you probably haven't heard is that the point of doing them isn't to strengthen ...