Your Achilles tendon runs vertically between your heel bone and calf muscles. Though the Achilles is the largest and strongest tendon in the human body, the blood supply to the area can decrease ...

Pain that comes from behind or beneath the heel is more likely to be a case of Achilles tendonitis. There are other causes, and location (pain on the side of the heel, for example) is a clue when ...

spring-like Achilles tendon, the researchers noted, which connects calf and ankle muscles to the heel bone. This anatomical arrangement provides humans with the powerful and efficient ankle ...

The relative underuse of the affected lower limb after surgery results in prolonged calcaneal bone loss despite early weightbearing loading in patients surgically treated for chronic tendinopathy of ...

Objective: To prospectively investigate tendon thickness and tendon structure by ultrasonography in patients treated with eccentric calf muscle training for painful chronic Achilles tendinosis ... 2–6 ...