Achilles Tendons

Educational Links

My view on Achilles tendons surgery

Short Achilles tendons cause tippy-toeing, crossed feet, and eventually, the inability to walk. Botox and stretching surgery are short term easy solutions. But surgery has to be repeated every few years, narrowing the Achilles tendons, until they are not useful to walk any more.

Exercise (walking) and the stretching program in this video can help a lot!

Muscle Relaxation

Spasticity makes us tighten our muscles through most movements. This makes us slow and tires us before we should get tired. Additionally, it reduces our strength, speed, and accuracy. The reason for the accuracy, speed and strength reduction is that the effort made by each muscle is being cancelled by the effort made by the opposing muscles.

Overcoming spasticity is extremely difficult. Our brain has such a difficult time graduating its movements and slowing down or stopping the movement in intermediate points when we have spasic muscles. Karate and kung fu have helped me tremendously with this. My favorite is karate because I like the explosive movements involved.

Fitness and Sport Links

Exercising every day takes a very big toll on any one. I use many suplements to have the energy my body requires. Here are links to sites that sale top quality suplements and can be trusted. All of these are sites where I purchase the products I use.