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With Acute Achilles Tendonitis Injury you often feel all or most of the following things:-

• sharp nagging pain above heel
• ‘first step’ pain in the morning or after sitting for a while
• walking downstairs first thing in morning
• increase in pain by walking up stairs or uphill
• localised painful swelling in your tendon (watch video)

With Chronic Achilles Tendonitis Injury / Achilles Tendinopathy the symptoms may start off more gradually and include:-

• aching pain in tendon over a few weeks
• pain with any exercise (may settle when warmed up but becomes constant
• painful tendon when walking uphill or up stairs
• ‘first step’ pain and stiffness in the morning or after rest
• possible lumps in the tendon (watch video)
• painful to squeeze tendon
• swelling or thickening in the tendon
• possible ‘creaking’ (crepitus) when you move the ankle and feel the tendon

This type of Achilles problem classically :-

• affects older (50 years+) athletes
• sufferers tend also to be overweight
• pain is right down where the Achilles attaches to the heel
• pain is localised to the outer attachment of the Achilles
• pain starts gradually after / during exercise
• pain can become fairly constant and is made worse by any activity
• can be local swelling around the top of the heel bone
• possible ‘creaking’ (crepitus) around back of ankle when you move it