Achilles Tendinitis Treatment with Graston Technique for Running Injuries & Pain

Many runners end up with Achilles tendinitis or tendinosis. The calf muscle is made up the gastroc and soleus. Two big muscles, they're coming to fuse to become the Achilles tendon as it attaches down on the heel. The muscle starts to spasm and tightens and pulls that upward direction producing more stress and strain on the bottom of the Achilles. Treatment ends up trying to work this whole area. We don't want to work just what hurts.

We want to work the muscle that's involved too. The Achilles tendon ends up becoming injured and you'll start to feel these nodules form around that Achilles. Usually people feel a big round bump or soreness and that spot usually has developed over weeks to months. So we're already used some electric and ice to help decrease the pain and muscle spasms in the area. We're now going to use some Graston to help break up some of the scar tissue through the whole calf. The calf is a big strong muscle that ends up getting scar tissue through time.

That scar tissue limits how that muscle can move, end up putting more stress and strain on that tendon. So in treatment, we're going to work and try to remove all the scar tissue we can through that calf muscle. We're going to come down to that Achilles where we're going to slide along.

We're using shear force to break up that scar tissue. We're getting a little hold of that knot. The nodule must be slide to past it. We're breaking up that scar tissue. That's going to help trigger the body's mechanisms to come in and repair, to get some proper healing on that tendon. We're going to combine this with massage therapy to loosen up the whole calf and lower leg to get that flexibility back into the muscle groups.

We're going to combine a lot of exercises to re-strengthen the calf, lower foot and ankle muscles.