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Message: [QUOTE="Raw Boned Youngster, post: 2263545, member: 1886"] Yeah, unfortunately I am much ( much ) older and I don't get the degree of care that a pro sportsman would get. While I am far from Justin's fitness level, prior to my injury, I trained at a gym 4 days per week, and trained and played with my local football team. I was in pretty good nick and to say the injury came as a shock is a huge understatement. I thought a sniper had shot me. However, I am committed to doing what I can to make a full recovery so I can get back to playing sport. I see my physio every two weeks now ( it was weekly ) but I have a regimented set of prescribed stretches / strengthening exercised that I work hard at a couple of times each day. My physio is happy with the progress and assures me I'll be right to regain my former youthful vigour, but things would have to change fairly dramitically before I had the bollocks to do anything more than a controlled shuffle. It is a bizarre injury - it is like walking in a shoe that has a sole that is coming off. You are not really sure where your heel is and, as I have mentioned, the power of pushing off on the balls of your foot basically disappears. I can't imagine at six months, regardless of treatment, how any person could have the explosive power, or the confidence, to run, accelerate and step or to perform at an elite sporting level. There are long periods of immobilisation and being in a cast and boot during recovery, regardless of who the person is - it is the body's largest tendon and heals very slowly. I'm just trying to share my story, which I'm sure Justin will soon be able to relate to large chunks of - most people who have been through the injury seem to tell a similar story. I hope Justin makes a full recovery. [/QUOTE]

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