138. How to treat patellar & achilles tendinopathy with Daniel Silvan
Physio Edge podcast with David Pope
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The Morning Stiffness for the Achilles Tendon
The standard provocative tests that we know are quite good so for a key less we use the more in pain or morning stiffness as a marker. And plyometrics doing a single leg the client squad sometimes doesn't trigger the pain he needs something else. For the Achilles tendon, I think it's quite reliable the morning stiffness because it warms up quite easily. If you assess the athlete 6 p.m., most likely there will not be any pain even if he is doing single leg calf raises or hops or whatever.
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