So, I ruptured my achilles tendon during a rugby practice last Thursday night. Thanks to Canada’s healthcare system, I had it surgically repaired the next day.
The injury was actually a neat experience that I feel the need to document. I was scrummaging on a machine similar to the one pictured below. I hit the machine a few times, and was well warmed up. After one particular hit, I felt the sensation of being kicked in the back of the leg. Upon turning around and asking my teammates who kicked me, I soon realized that I had not been kicked, and something else was going on. I tried to walk, but my heel wouldn’t come off the ground, and it felt like my knee was going to fall forward over my ankle.
On the night of the injury, my foot was plantar-flexed and put into a cast. Without an achilles tendon, my foot was permanently dorsi-flexed, and I could not feel the bottom of the cast. That was another really weird sensation. Now that my achilles has been repaired, it is reasurring to be able to put pressure on the bottom of my cast.
Here is a video demonstrating the quick diagnosis of a ruptured achilles tendon:
Here is the surgery that I just had done:
2 Comments on this post
Leave a CommentOkay, the last video on the surgery was like a mash-up of freddy krueger and frankenstein. Woooohoooom that must’ve been scary.
Comment left on 5.20.2011 by Karla
Feels like so scary upon watching that surgery. I can’t eat if I remember that operation.;(
Comment left on 4.3.2012 by Angel