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Good Results with Painful Eccentric Calf Muscle Training for Patients with Painful Midportion Achilles Tendinosis-Implications for New Treatments
| Håkan Alfredson* | |
| Department of Surgical and Perioperative Science, Sports Medicine Unit, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden | |
| Corresponding Author : | Håkan Alfredson Department of Surgical and Perioperative Science Sports Medicine Unit, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden Tel: +46702288441 Fax: +4690135692 E-mail: hakan.alfredson@idrott.umu.se |
| Received January 17, 2014; Accepted May 27, 2014; Published May 30, 2014 | |
| Citation: Alfredson H (2014) Good Results with Painful Eccentric Calf Muscle Training for Patients with Painful Midportion Achilles Tendinosis-Implications for New Treatments. J Nov Physiother 4:213. doi: 10.4172/2165-7025.1000213 | |
| Copyright: © 2014 Alfredson H. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
Chronic painful tendons were previously considered to be treated with more or less pain-free rehabilitation exercises. These tendons were considered “degenerative and weak”, and should be handled carefully. The concept of painful eccentric loading for the chronic painful midportion Achilles was started by a co-incidence, and the successful clinical results were unexpected. This is a short review about painful eccentric training-the Umeå modeland how the results of this treatment model broke the ice for new research, research findings providing a basis for inventions of new successful treatment methods.
