Snapped my Achilles tendon

[goonie]

Snapped my Achilles tendon tonight playing squash, have to get an ultrasound tomorrow and then see the specialist, but it looks like it's completely seperated, so 8 weeks in a cast, then rehab and take it easy for a few more months :-(

Anyone else been through this?

[Yossarian]

No, I had a fair few issues with them when I was a teenager but thankfully never snapped them! All the best mate that is a nasty injury.

[henno]

Surely you require surgery to reattach it?

[TourFit]

Argh mate...sorry to hear that. Nasty injury. Hope it all goes well

Becks had the same injury last year & just stayed at home a rooted Posh for a most of the time. :-s

[MegaWatty]

Becks had the same injury last year & just stayed at home a rooted Posh for a most of the time. :-s

Huh?

[Yossarian]

Surely you require surgery to reattach it?

I assumed this as well.

[Golfnut]

Argh mate...sorry to hear that. Nasty injury. Hope it all goes well

Becks had the same injury last year & just stayed at home a rooted Posh for a most of the time. :-s

Now Becks is better maybe goonie can take his place in the recovery nest with posh! ;)

Sorry to hear it goonie....the thought of snapping an achilles tendon makes me shudder.

[Hamo84]

All the best with the recovery Goonie

[goonie]

Surely you require surgery to reattach it?

I find out tomorrow, but there are 2 options, surgery and then a cast, or just a cast and allow the tendon to heal by its self, I thought surgery was the only way too.

[TourFit]

Huh?

You Rugby League guys...:roll:

David Beckham...Posh Spice (Victoria, his wife). He plays soccer, she was a 'singer' in an all girl band.

[MegaWatty]

You Rugby League guys...:roll:

David Beckham...Posh Spice (Victoria, his wife). He plays soccer, she was a 'singer' in an all girl band.

You edited your post homo! It was written like it was spoken by an Italian!

[kingslayer33]

Sorry to hear that goonie. My younger brother did his in Dec '09 and needed to go the surgery option. We were playing touch football and he was just running backwards in defense. The next week one of our friends did theirs as well in a ladies game on the same ground.

His name on here is pistoltas if you need to ask him any questions about rehab etc.

[Jarro]

Bad luck Lee :(

Heal well

[Minor_Threat]

Bad luck mate, hope recovery goes well for you.

[AndyP]

You need to stop getting injuries that stop you from playing golf, goonie.

[Goldy]

Happened to a mate of mine in early November - he's back on the course after surgery, but still moving a bit gingerly. So a couple of months would be the minimum break, I would think.

Hope it all goes well.

[matty]

Thats a bad one goonie. If it's completely seperated you'll need surgery to attached the two ends of the tendon or the tendon back to the bone. If you ruptured it, cast, exercises, massage etc for months.

I ruptured mine badly twice. I could put the end of my little finger into the tear. The rupture runs vertically on the achilles. It tooks ages for it to feel better again. There's a long process ahead of you.

Was it your left leg?

[Eag's]

Bummer Goonie, that type of injury is very nasty.

[Ferrins]

You're fked, golf cart golf for you now. Maybe with disability card, you'll get to park close at the shops.

[Dcanto]

Bad luck Goonie. Hope your recovery is a quick one.

[goonie]

Left leg, I was stopping or pushing off the back wall of the squash court when it suddenly felt and sounded like I had smashed the back of my foot against the glass wall, I knew I hadn't hit the wall and something was wrong straight away, I took the weight off my foot and it was just sort of hanging there and soft where the tendon should be tight. Time to call the ambulance.

[goonie]

Thanks for all the get wells guys.

[Moe Norman]

Got any gear you want to offload cheap while you recover?

Might need to help pay for medical bills ;)

c'mon everyone, someone had to say it!

[Daves]

Got any gear you want to offload cheap while you recover?

Might need to help pay for medical bills ;)

c'mon everyone, someone had to say it!

He was still Ho'ing in another thread after the event, so I reckon he was fair game!;)

[Hux]

The only hoing Goonie will be able to do now is wedges and putters...no 910's for him!!

BTW Bummer Goonie - it can be a tough bit of rehab and physio to get back 100%.

[goonie]

Got any gear you want to offload cheap while you recover?

Might need to help pay for medical bills ;)

c'mon everyone, someone had to say it!

I'm already trying to buy gear for my return to golf :-)

[Pieface]

Hard luck Goonie. That is a nasty one. They say doing the achilles is an old mans injury did you know that?

I hope the recovery process runs smoothly for you :)

[goonie]

Hard luck Goonie. That is a nasty one. They say doing the achilles is an old mans injury did you know that?

I hope the recovery process runs smoothly for you :)

Old man or sports injury actually, ;-)

[Jarro]

Luckily we got our matchplay done before this injury ;)

[goonie]

Specialist suggested repairing using a LARS synthetic tendon, 10 days with a cast, then walking in a brace for about 6 weeks, then physio, so looking at about 6 months before full strength is back if all goes well, but being back on my feet in ten days sounds better than an eight week cast, plus I shouldn't lose as much muscle strength.

[AndyP]

Isn't the LARS stuff still risky? I think a couple of AFL players have had it done on their knees, got away with a couple of seasons, then the knee has gone again. If you haven't already, you might want to look into it.

[goonie]

Luckily we got our matchplay done before this injury ;)

Glad I didn't win now, because someone would have got a forfeit, go the ghey white clubs :-)

[goonie]

Isn't the LARS stuff still risky? I think a couple of AFL players have had it done on their knees, got away with a couple of seasons, then the knee has gone again. If you haven't already, you might want to look into it.

I will look into it of course, I don't know about the knees, but the one for the achilles it is designed to assist the tendon to regrow and then the tendon takes over.

[BrisVegas]

sorry to hear goonie. good luck with the recovery process.

[matty]

Left leg, I was stopping or pushing off the back wall of the squash court when it suddenly felt and sounded like I had smashed the back of my foot against the glass wall, I knew I hadn't hit the wall and something was wrong straight away, I took the weight off my foot and it was just sort of hanging there and soft where the tendon should be tight. Time to call the ambulance.

When I ruptured mine a couple of times the doctor told me an interesting fact. If you're right handed you are generally right side dominant in a physical sense. Same goes for left. For some reason a huge percentage of right handers do their left achilles and vice versa. The theory is that being right handed/right side dominant you step off your left foot a lot harder, more often, and put more pressure on it and eventually SNAP :smt073

[dwayne]

Goonie, I did mine about 10 years ago. 12 weeks in a cast and then about the same at the physio getting the movement and strength back.
Good news is apart from being a bit stiff in the morning it is back to normal. ie can do everything I was doing before the injury golf, running etc.
You must have surgery otherwise it will limit what you can do after recovering and you'll probably have a limp. I had the traditional surgery so not sure how the Lars would be.
Good luck it is a shocking injury but you'll be fine in time.

[Courty]

Geez, tough break that. I got insertional tendonitis in my left achilles a only last week. It hurt like hell, and it's only a minor tear. Good luck with the treatment & recovery!

[goonie]

I had my operation around 2pm this afternoon, everything went well, overnight stay, visit by the doc and physio tomorrow and then the long road to recovery. The doc did say one thing tonight, there was a big gap, over 3cm, I hope it doesn't mean the recovery will take a lot longer.

[Courty]

Good luck with the recovery, Goonie!

[TheTrueReview]

Yeah, good luck Goonie. I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but your elite football playing days might be over. :razz:

[Golfnut]

Yeah, good luck Goonie. I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but your elite football playing days might be over. :razz:

He can finally concentrate on his golf now then :razz:

What drugs did they give you for the pain goonie?

[goonie]

Just panadine forte and nurophen, but I have no pain yet, I have been lucky in that department only experencing bad pain for about 10-15mins roughly 30mins after I did it, and some mild pain when I bump my leg or can't it in a comfy position. Maybe i'm just tough :-)

I am really glad the pain has been good because I still have mental scars from when I had kidney stones, but thats another story.

[Golfnut]

Kidney stone pain is comparable to woman's child birth pain so that's probably a whole different kettle of fish......but good to hear the pains not bothering you too much.

[IanO]

My brother's wife did the complete tear playing tennis and it was 9 months of cast, then boot with progressively shorter heel wedges and physio. Horrible injury.

I hope it all goes well for you Goonie

[AndyP]

Any updates?
This fixed yet?

[mike]

Timely thread.

I've been having a lot of pain in my right achilles for about a month. Hurt it playing touch footy. Went to get it checked yesterday and it turns out I have a partial tear.

Goonie, did you have any pain before it snapped?

[TheTrueReview]

I remember when Tony Currie snapped his achilles playing for the Bulldogs. He was never as good after he came back from the injury.

http://thebulldogs.com.au/media/players/tony_currie.jpg

[goonie]

due to get the half cast off on tuesday the 29th then the brace/boot goes on for 6 weeks which should allow me to start walking again.

[goonie]

Any updates?
This fixed yet?

updates yes, including dates, no not fixed yet but again at least some approximate dates given, more than we get out of you in regards to tapatalk, and with no attitude.

[goonie]

Timely thread.

I've been having a lot of pain in my right achilles for about a month. Hurt it playing touch footy. Went to get it checked yesterday and it turns out I haven a partial tear.

Goonie, did you have any pain before it snapped?

replied to PM, no pain or warning before break, but I have heard that partial tears are more painful.

[AndyP]

updates yes, including dates, no not fixed yet but again at least some approximate dates given, more than we get out of you in regards to tapatalk, and with no attitude.
Happy Days!


Only Tigerblooded can handle the winningness of Tapatalk.

[mike]

no pain or warning before break, but I have heard that partial tears are more painful.My partial tear is pretty painful but I can't see it being worse than the full snap. Good luck with the recovery.

I took the adhesive strapping off today. Now THAT'S painful.

[goonie]

My partial tear is pretty painful but I can't see it being worse than the full snap. Good luck with the recovery.

I took the adhesive strapping off today. Now THAT'S painful.

Specialist said that a full snap can fairly painless, as with mine, but a major tear is very painful, I am guessing that rehab isn't going to be fun thou.

[henno]

As someone that's done partial tears as well as a full snap of ankle tendons (not Achilles) the partial tears hurt more but healed quicker. The full tear hurt far less, but took much longer to recover. Choose your poison.

[dc68]

I remember when Tony Currie snapped his achilles playing for the Bulldogs. He was never as good after he came back from the injury.

http://thebulldogs.com.au/media/players/tony_currie.jpg


Good enough to come home and play in a Broncos Premiership winning team when they beat the Dragqueens.

[goonie]

I have had one good thing happen since this injury, I have lost 6kg in less than a week, who knew all I had to do to lose weight was to sit on my arse and do bugger all :-)

[Golfnut]

Resist the munchies goonie........or have I just put the mocka on you :)

[goonie]

Weight loss continues, I have lost 7.5kg in 7-8 days, apart from not being able to walk etc... I must say I don't mind the rest of this diet, you sit on your arse most of the day, watch TV, play on the computer and ever now and then hop around on crutches.

[AndyP]

Losing that much weight in just a week doesn't sound healthy, goonie.

[henno]

Most of that would be muscle and fluid; there's no doubt about it.

[timah!]

Most of that would be muscle and fluid; there's no doubt about it.

+1

[AndyP]

That much? Wow!

Tapatalk: Bug report? What bug report?

[henno]

That much? Wow!

I usually drop 5-6kg in 4-5 days when I have my yearly hospital visit, and I don't weight that much. I can assure you that a lot of it is muscle and a real lot of it is fluid. Luckily most of it comes back pretty easily.

It's difficult to drop that much fat that quickly merely "sitting around" without affecting a). Muscle mass, b). Metabolism. If goonie was out running marathons every day it might be a different story, although even then unless you weight 200kg (and therefore body fat percentage wise it MIGHT be ok.. maybe) losing 1kg+ per DAY is less than ideal.

[goonie]

I am sure that some loss is muscle in my left leg (but my right leg may be getting bigger with the extra work), I think I can notice that my left thigh is a little smaller than the right, but my gut is smaller and the missus has made a few comments that she can see it in my face also, and I have also noticed that my clothes are looser, I have been very good with my diet, and getting around on crutches is hard work for someone of my weight, and really works the arms, core and working leg, plus my balance on one leg is pretty amazing now.
I was only off the fluids and food for a bit over half a day so I don't think fluid has anything to do with it and I didn't lose any weight in the first week.

I have managed to lose weight fairly quickly in the past by changing my Diet and nothing else, but not quite this fast.

[henno]

I was only off the fluids and food for a bit over half a day so I don't think fluid has anything to do with it

If you say so. :? Either way, I maintain that losing 1% of your body weight per day is bad news no matter what you're losing. You just can't strip off 1kg of fat alone per day; it's as simple as that.

[goonie]

Day of Operation -
I didn't drink or eat from 6am as instructed (got up to have an early breaky), had Op around 1pm, was drinking water not long after getting back to my room, and had dinner at normal hospital time around 6-6.30pm, had another snack of sandwiches before bed, and also went to the toilet before I went to bed meaning I had plenty of fluid in my system, they also removed the drip around or just after dinner. I went thru 3-4 600ml bottles of water before I left at around 11am the next morning. Eating (although a lot less) and drinking has been normal since and due to having had Kidney Stones in the past I drink 2-3+ litres of water a day. I know I am not doing a lot atm but I work in IT, so apart from 2 5min walks to the train station and walking around the office, it's not that physical and I am generally sitting on my arse most of the day.
So I would love to know what massive fluid loss your talking about keeping in mind I weighted my self 3 days after my Op and was my normal recent weight.

[henno]

Well then you've stumbled on a magical secret you should sell to the masses. Being able to lose 1kg+ per day while sitting on your bum and not have it be mostly fluid or muscle is the holy grail of weight loss.

"I'll have what he's having."

[goonie]

I'm sure some of it is muscle as I said before, but I know some of it isn't, next week will tell the true story as the first week is normally the best week when dieting from memory and the drop won't be as big each week after, and maybe it's because I have plenty to lose :-)
Next week I get my Boot/Brace fitted and I will be able to walk again, I'm sure with more walking around my normal hunger will return.

[goonie]

Got the cast off yesterday and got the boot/brace fitted, have to stretch my foot a little and then start trying to walk with the boot, if all goes well I should be back at work next week. I have to use the boot for 6 weeks, and start Physio in 4 weeks. Big bloody scar, about 20cm

[PeteyD]

It'll match the one where they cut the second head off!

Good to hear you are healing up.

[goonie]

Started to walk today, more like a hobble, expecting a very sore foot and leg tomorrow. Also I have lost another 2.5kg, the rapid drop has slowed as expected but I am still losing weight, 10kg so far.
I'm also going to try and go back to work this week,it should be very interesting.

[goonie]

Been back at work for 3 weeks now, and should only have to use the boot for another 2 weeks, although I have already been walking around at home without it for nearly a week and a half.

I have my first physio appt tomorrow night, i'm hoping to get a better idea of the recovery timeframe, and how long before I can start any type of golf, I can already putt and chip in the back room, but can only manage a very unbalanced full swing :-(

I have also lost 12kg now, and I am pretty sure the doc wants me to start working out at the gym in a few weeks to build my left leg back up, so hopfully I can keep the weight loss going.

[Courty]

Fingers crossed for a quick recovery, Goonie.

[goonie]

Thanks, so far so good.

[goonie]

Boot is gone since tuesday, doc gave all clear for physio to do full rehab, got flexability to within 6.5cm of where it needs to be when I saw the physio on tuesday, My flexability has improved 10cm in 2 weeks (3 visits) of physio, he said I am ahead of where I need to be, muscle strength is still poor. Should be able to start driving in the next week or 2. Golf could still be 10 weeks away :-(

[goughy]

Only just saw this thread. Bugger mate, that'd kill me, and sink my business. One of my tri mates did his before Noosa over a year ago. The only good thing about it was that he was a tall and lanky guy, and at least for a short time it looked like he had one calf muscle cause it was all bunched up the top! Hope things keep getting better. No wonder you were so pissed aobut tapatalk. You were bored!

[goonie]

OK so everything has was going very well, I nearly have full flexability back, i have been working on building strength back in my leg for the last 3 weeks, i can pretty much walk normally again, I even went to the range for the first time on tuesday night with no issues at all.

But after fighting off a chest infection this week and not feeling the best late in the week my leg started getting sore on thursday afternoon, it gets even worse on friday morning, late friday afternoon most of the scar on my leg has gone red and i have a big lump there as well, i have aches all over and my skin tingles, my hands start getting cold and i get a temp, i head to the hospital at 8.30pm, temp is 39.4, after waiting several hours i finally see a doctor, she has no idea what she is doing so she goes and finds a more senior doctor, he says I need IV antibiotics then I can go home and come back Sat evening for a review and more antibiotics, the hopeless doctor has 2 attempts to but the drip thing in my hand before she thinks it might be best to get someone else to do it (never had an issue before) get the antibiotics done and leave and get home at 1am.
Crawl out of bed this morning at about 10am, look at my leg and it looks the same, by 1-2pm i notice my lower leg/foot has swollen and is even more red with lots of little reds spots on my foot and calf, so off to hospital again, have to wait again but not to long as i was a review patient, doctors decide I need to to stay overnight and get stronger antibiotics every 6 hours, so I am now sitting in a short stay bed after my first lot of drugs, and due for more at midnight, and with the noise and light I don't think much sleeping will happen, Yeah :-(

Sorry for the novel but i'm bored as sitting in this hospital bed, might watch some tv shows on my phone now.

[BrisVegas]

Fingers crossed for you Lee.

[Ned]

Look on the bright side, if it was a hand/finger injury you wouldn't be able to post on OZgolf!!!!!!

[goonie]

Fingers crossed for you Lee.

Thanks

[goonie]

Look on the bright side, if it was a hand/finger injury you wouldn't be able to post on OZgolf!!!!!!

I could learn to use my toes, or voice recognition :-)

[Goldy]

I haven't snapped mine Goonie, but have badly strained it - been doing physio for about 5 weeks.

Slowly getting better, but it's a bastard of an injury. I've been on the range today and practising in bunkers - a little sore tonight, but not too bad. Hoping to get 9 on Friday, haven't played for 4 weeks.

But I'm sure that's nothing compared to yours. Hope it comes good for you.