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Get a heel lift for your running shoes and don’t stretch your achilles tendon too much.  Rest if the achilles pain doesn’t go away. LISTEN TO YOUR BODY!  Ice it – heat it ! Troy

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Maybe your left achilles tendon began to hurt as a result of running differently due to the injury to your right knee.  If your right knee still hurts, this could be the problem.  That’s usually the way my legs start hurting during a marathon.  I tore my right achilles tendon about 16 years ago.  I had ultrasound on it, and I don’t recall how long it took to heal.  I don’t recall that my toes tingled as a result of this injury, but it was excruciatingly painful and I could barely walk.  As the previous poster said, raising the heel of my shoe helped shorten and rest the tendon while it was healing.  Since then I stretch my achilles tendons by standing on the edge of a step and very slowly raising and lowering my heels.  I do it with my heels straight, then turned in, and then turned out.  I stretch both tendons at the same time, while holding onto the railing of the steps, before and after I run.  If I forget to stretch the tendon I tore, sometimes it hurts. I just take it as a reminder that I have to always stretch this way before I run.  If I were in your situation, and if my tendon felt closer to "ouch that hurts" than it did to "oh no, I can barely move my foot without screaming", then I would stretch it gently and this would make my tendon feel better in a day or so.  But that’s what works for me, it may be different for you.  Good luck… Before you buy.

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Hello fellow runners.  I have a problem that I hope you will be able to help me out with.  I believe I have an Achilles Tendon Injury.  I had been taking about a week off from running because of a knee injury (on the other leg). The day after making a 6 hour drive to Tucson, AZ I noticed that my left achilles tendon was quite sore.  I went running and it didn’t seem to bother me.  Since then, I have run 3 more times without pain during the run. Now for the symptoms:  It is quite painful on the back side of my leg on top of the heel, where the achilles tendon connects with the heel?  Well I have been attempting to stretch it out and all was fine, but this morning my foot got caught in my seat as I was going for my Starbuck’s fix, and now it is quite painful.  It hurts whether I am walking or sitting, and my toes feel a bit tingly.  I don’t know what to do and I really can’t go to the Doctor for a few weeks because I am attending a 2 week class starting next week.  What should I do? Thanks Jon Hurtado Run How You Feel, Listen To Your Body

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