Sports Injury Physio

Insertional Achilles tendonitis (tendinopathy) is different from Achilles injuries higher up in the tendon.

Sports physio Maryke explains how to recognise this type of injury as well as the how and the why of approaching its treatment somewhat differently from the standard Achilles injury treatment.

🌟 Need help with an injury? You’re welcome to consult one of the physio team at TMA via video call for an assessment of your Achilles injury and a tailored treatment plan

👉 Examples of insertional Achilles tendonitis-friendly sandals:

✅ Women's sandals with heel-to-toe drop

✅ Men's sandals with heel-to-toe drop

✅ Unisex sandals with heel-to-toe drop

👉 Examples of clogs:

✅ Men

✅ Women

👉 Examples of running shoes with a good heel-to-toe drop:

✅ Brooks Adrenaline - 12 mm heel-to-toe drop (women)

✅ Brooks Ghost - 12 mm heel-to-toe drop (men)

✅ Asics Gel-Venture - 10 mm heel-to-toe drop (women)

✅ Asics Gel-Kayano - 10 mm heel-to-toe drop (men):

✅ Men's stylish sneakers/trainers with heel-to-toe drop

✅ Women's stylish sneakers/trainers with heel-to-toe drop

👉 Examples of heel-raising shoe inserts:

✅ CHARFINE (height adjustable)

✅ Beautulip

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📽️ Useful videos mentioned in this one:

➡️ Our collection of videos on insertional Achilles tendonitis/tendinopathy

➡️ Why Relative Rest is Important for Achilles Tendinopathy Treatment

➡️ Exercises for Insertional Achilles Tendonitis

➡️ Best & Worst Shoes for Achilles Tendonitis

➡️ Our collection of heel bursitis videos

➡️ The Three Types Of Achilles Tendon Calcification

➡️ All about complete Achilles tendon tears

➡️ All about partial Achilles tendon tears

➡️ Is Your "Achilles Tendonitis" Actually a Gout Attack?

➡️ Arthritis Related Achilles Pain

➡️ Tingling Heel & Achilles

➡️ How Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics Cause Achilles Tendonitis

➡️ Haglund's Deformity Treatment

➡️ All about menopause and Achilles tendonitis

➡️ What If You Can’t Rest Your Achilles Tendon?

➡️ How to Adapt Yoga for Achilles Tendonitis

➡️ Adapting Pilates For Achilles Tendonitis

➡️ Achilles or Heel Pain when Doing a Squat

🔎 Want to dig deeper? Here's our library with a wealth of resources on Achilles tendonitis and tendinopathy.

🧾 Our overview article on Achilles tendonitis treatments - those that work as well as those that don't work.

👉 Attention physios! Are you looking for a rehab exercise library? Join Wibbi - which we’ve been using for more than 10 years - via this link to get a free trial and a discount if you subscribe.

🏆 Here’s why Wibbi is our top choice for exercise prescription.

📚 Chapters in this episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:07 What is insertional Achilles tendinopathy?

00:03:07 Symptoms of insertional Achilles tendinopathy

00:12:58 What causes insertional Achilles tendinopathy?

00:25:41 How to treat insertional Achilles tendinopathy

00:55:50 Insertional Achilles tendinopathy combined with other conditions

01:01:02 How we can help

Stretching for high hamstring tendinopathy is one of the exercises to avoid - even though it is still often prescribed.

Sports physio Maryke demonstrates why stretching is bad for you in this instance and recommends alternative ways to get rid of that stiff feeling in your hamstring muscles, including a massage gun demonstration.

🌟Need help with an injury? You’re welcome to consult one of the team at Sports Injury Physio via video call for an assessment of your injury and a tailored treatment plan.

👉 Here's a selection of useful massage guns available on Amazon:

✅ RENPHO massage gun

✅ TOLOCO massage gun

✅ Turonic massage gun

✅ HeyChy mini massage gun

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📽️ Other relevant videos:

➡️ What Causes Proximal (High) Hamstring Tendinopathy?

➡️ Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy Treatments

➡️ Foam Rolling Hamstrings: Dos, Don'ts & How To

➡️ High Hamstring Tendinopathy: What's The Deal With Sitting?

➡️ Why Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics are Bad for Your Tendons

📽️ And here's our full High Hamstring Tendinopathy Playlist

🔎 Want to dig deeper? Here is our library with a wealth of information and advice on high/proximal hamstring tendinopathy.

👉 Attention physios! Are you looking for a rehab exercise library? Join Wibbi - which we’ve been using for more than 10 years - via this link to get a free trial and a discount if you subscribe.

🏆 Here’s why Wibbi is our top choice for exercise prescription.

📚Chapters in this episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:51 Why some stretches are bad for high hamstring tendinopathy

00:02:29 Obvious problematic stretches demonstrated

00:04:34 Less obvious problematic stretches demonstrated

00:05:13 Why people want to stretch the high hamstring tendons

00:06:42 Alternatives to stretching

00:07:48 Massage gun dos and don'ts

00:12:32 Massage gun demo

00:17:37 How we can help

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The most common causes of lateral hip pain are gluteal tendinopathy and/or hip bursitis.

Learn what the symptoms of these two conditions are, and why they are often in cahoots with causing lateral hip pain.

🌟Need help with an injury? You’re welcome to consult one of the physio team at SIP online via video call for an assessment of your injury and a tailored treatment plan.

📽️ Related videos:

➡️ Our full collection of videos on gluteal tendinopathy

➡️ Gluteal Tendinopathy & Hip Bursitis Sleeping Tips

➡️ How to Sit with Gluteal Tendinopathy

➡️ How To Use Pain To Guide Gluteal Tendinopathy Rehab

➡️ Gluteal Tendinopathy Exercises

🔎 Want to dig deeper? Here's our library on all things gluteal tendinopathy.

👉 Attention physios! Are you looking for a rehab exercise library? Join Wibbi - which we’ve been using for more than 10 years - via this link to get a free trial and a discount if you subscribe.

🏆 Here’s why Wibbi is our top choice for exercise prescription.

📚Chapters in this episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:17 Anatomy overview

00:05:39 Symptoms of gluteal tendinopathy and hip bursitis

00:10:50 Basic rehab principles

00:13:19 How we can help

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The effectiveness of platelet rich plasma (PRP) injections for Achilles tendonitis varies wildly.

Fortunately, we know which factors influence this, and there's a lot you can do - before and after the injection - to increase the chance that it will work for your injury.

Sports physio Maryke explains.

🌟 Need help with an Achilles-related injury? You’re welcome to consult one of the physio team at Treat My Achilles via video call for an assessment and a tailored treatment plan.

📽️ My colleague Ali explains how to judge how much rehab activity your injured tendon can tolerate.

... and these are all our videos on various injections for Achilles injuries.

🧾 More detail about the progressive rehab plan that I talk about in the video.

🔎 Want to dig deeper? Here's our library with a wealth of resources on Achilles tendonitis and tendinopathy.

👉 Attention physios! Are you looking for a rehab exercise library? Join Wibbi - which we’ve been using for more than 10 years - via this link to get a free trial and a discount if you subscribe.

🏆 Here’s why Wibbi is our top choice for exercise prescription.

📚 Chapters in this episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:49 How PRP works

00:02:10 Does it work for Achilles tendonitis?

00:04:03 When to have PRP

00:05:15 Pre-injection factors

00:08:24 The quality of the procedure

00:10:11 Post-injection factors

00:16:30 How we can help

There's no one-size-fits-all treatment for gluteal tendinopathy - it depends on which of the three classic stages of a tendinopathy your injury is in.

Sports physio Maryke explains how to figure out which stage you are in, what the best treatment approach is in each case, and why plunging headlong into a set of rehab exercises you got off the Internet is usually a bad idea.

🌟Need help with an injury? You’re welcome to consult one of the physio team at SIP online via video call for an assessment of your injury and a tailored treatment plan.

📽️ Related videos:

➡️ Our full collection of videos on gluteal tendinopathy

➡️ Relative rest for gluteal tendinopathy

➡️ Gluteal tendinopathy treatment overview

🔎 Want to dig deeper? Here's our library on all things gluteal tendinopathy

👉 Attention physios! Are you looking for a rehab exercise library? Join Wibbi - which we’ve been using for more than 10 years - via this link to get a free trial and a discount if you subscribe.

🏆 Here’s why Wibbi is our top choice for exercise prescription.

📚Chapters in this episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:45 Reactive stage

00:04:37 Dysrepair stage

00:07:11 Degenerative stage

00:09:26 How to interpret your pain

00:13:30 How we can help

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If someone tells you that you have calcification in the Achilles tendon, your response should be: "What type?"

This group of conditions is often treated as one, but there are actually three distinct types, and they require different treatment approaches.

Sports physio Maryke explains how to deal with each.

🌟 Need help with an injury? You’re welcome to consult one of the physio team at TMA via video call for an assessment of your Achilles injury and a tailored treatment plan.

📽️ Useful videos mentioned in this one:

➡️ Our collection of videos on the treatment of Achilles tendonitis/tendinopathy

➡️ Best & Worst Shoes for Achilles Tendonitis

➡️ Why Relative Rest is Important for Achilles Tendinopathy Treatment

➡️ Shockwave Therapy For Achilles Tendonitis

➡️ Top Tips for Insertional Achilles Tendinopathy

🔎 Want to dig deeper? Here's our library with a wealth of resources on Achilles tendonitis and tendinopathy.

👉 Attention physios! Are you looking for a rehab exercise library? Join Wibbi - which we’ve been using for more than 10 years - via this link to get a free trial and a discount if you subscribe.

🏆 Here’s why Wibbi is our top choice for exercise prescription

📚 Chapters in this episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:01 Hard calcifications

00:06:03 Soft calcifications

00:20:27 Bony spurs

00:26:20 How we can help

It can be tricky to maintain your cardio fitness while recovering from gluteal tendinopathy without flaring up your tendon pain.

Sports physio Maryke explains how to figure out whether activities like running, swimming, and cycling are good for your gluteal tendinopathy, and discusses some gym machines to avoid for now.

🌟 Need help with an injury? You’re welcome to consult one of the team at Sports Injury Physio via video call for an assessment of your injury and a tailored treatment plan.

📽️ Other videos mentioned in this one:

➡️ Why Avoid Glute Stretches?

➡️ Can I Run With Gluteal Tendinopathy?

📽️ Our full collection of videos on gluteal tendinopathy.

🔎 Want to dig deeper? Here's our online library with a wealth of information on gluteal tendinopathy.

👉 Attention physios! Are you looking for a rehab exercise library? Join Wibbi - which we’ve been using for more than 10 years - via this link to get a free trial and a discount if you subscribe.

🏆 Here’s why Wibbi is our top choice for exercise prescription.

📚Chapters in this episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:17 Picking an activity

00:03:45 How to avoid flare-ups

00:13:05 Swimming

00:14:31 Cycling

00:16:17 Elliptical / cross-trainer

00:17:02 Walking

00:20:18 Running

00:21:27 Activities to avoid ... for now

00:22:46 How we can help

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Sports physio Maryke explains how physios use a three-step diagnosis process to tell whether your Achilles pain is caused by a partial tear or whether it might be something else, like a complete rupture or a tendinopathy.

🌟 Need help with an Achilles-related injury? You’re welcome to consult one of the physio team at Treat My Achilles via video call for an assessment and a tailored treatment plan.

📽️ Other videos mentioned in this episode:

➡️ How Partially Torn Achilles Tendons Heal

➡️ Best Treatment for Partial Achilles Tears/Ruptures

➡️ Shoes for Partial and Complete Achilles Tears

🔎 Want to dig deeper? Here's our library with a wealth of information on Achilles tears.

👉 Attention physios! Are you looking for a rehab exercise library? Join Wibbi - which we’ve been using for more than 10 years - via this link to get a free trial and a discount if you subscribe.

🏆 Here’s why Wibbi is our top choice for exercise prescription.

📚 Chapters in this episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:45 A three-step process

00:02:48 Step 1: The conversation

00:10:57 Step 2: Movement tests

00:14:44 Step 3: Scans

00:15:37 How we can help

Perimenopause or menopause is an often-overlooked cause of gluteal tendinopathy - typically experienced as pain over the outside of the hip.

In this episode, physiotherapist Alison Gould clarifies how this happens and explains how women can continue to lead active lives with the correct treatment approach.

🌟Need help with an injury? You’re welcome to consult one of the team at Sports Injury Physio via video call for an assessment of your injury and a tailored treatment plan.

📽️ Here's our full collection of videos on gluteal tendinopathy.

🔎 Want to dig deeper? Here's our library with a wealth of information on gluteal tendinopathy.

🧾 ... and the article about tendon repair supplements that Alison mentions in the video.

👉 Attention physios! Are you looking for a rehab exercise library? Join Wibbi - which we’ve been using for more than 10 years - via this link to get a free trial and a discount if you subscribe.

🏆 Here’s why Wibbi is our top choice for exercise prescription.

📚Chapters in this episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:52 Quick recap on gluteal tendinopathy

00:02:51 The link with menopause

00:05:40 Treatment with menopause in mind

00:11:38 Supplements

00:12:08 HRT

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Sports physio Maryke explains the most common causes of groin pain in runners, which include hip joint impingement, stress fractures, adductor tendonitis, and osteitis pubis.

She also shares a five-step process for treating groin injuries.

🌟 Need help with an injury? You’re welcome to consult one of the team at Sports Injury Physio via video call for an assessment of your injury and a tailored treatment plan.

📽️ Here's our collection of videos on specific types of groin pain. ... And here's that video about the single-leg squat that I mentioned. ... And the run-walk plan to ease back into running after an injury.

🔎 Want to dig deeper? Find our more about various types of groin injury:

🧾 Adductor tendinopathy

🧾 Abdominal tendinopathy

📽️ Osteitis pubis

📽️ Hip osteoarthritis - Tips for runners

🧾 Stress fractures in runners

👉 Attention physios! Are you looking for a rehab exercise library? Join Wibbi - which we’ve been using for more than 10 years - via this link to get a free trial and a discount if you subscribe.

🏆 Here’s why Wibbi is our top choice for exercise prescription.

📚Chapters in this episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:52 Step 1 - Identify the cause

00:03:57 Adductor tendon injuries

00:08:55 Hip flexor tendinopathy

00:14:17 Abdominal tendinopathy

00:17:06 Osteitis pubis

00:19:44 Hip impingement

00:23:14 Hip joint injuries

00:27:03 Bone stress injuries

00:30:08 Step 2 - Relative rest

00:36:19 Step 3 - Strength and control

00:38:58 Step 4 - Progress to match your goal

00:40:28 Step 5 - Ease back into running

00:43:05 How we can help

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