If you’ve injured your Achilles, wading through the sea of misinformation about how to treat it can be overwhelming. Whether you’ve recently been injured or you’ve been dealing with a more chronic injury that just doesn’t seem to improve, it is possible to heal an injured Achilles tendon without having surgery.
Avoid Reinjury for a Quicker Recovery
When recovering from a soft tissue injury, it can feel as though you’re taking one step forward and two steps back with your healing progress. This is due to getting reinjured. By pushing through pain during exercise, or not resting enough to allow the injury to make healing progress, reinjury can occur, which extends your healing time. Get ahead of reinjury by resting as much as possible, using cold therapy to manage inflammation, pain, and swelling, and by respecting the pain signals that your injury sends you.
Cold Therapy – Helpful Throughout Recovery
You can use cold therapy all throughout your recovery in order to reduce swelling, inflammation, and pain. The less inflammation that is present, the easier for the Achilles tendon to heal. The ColdCure wrap made by King Brand Healthcare Products is ideal to treat an injured Achilles – it conforms perfectly to the area that hurts most of your foot and ankle, and the cold compression therapy it provides eases the pain and swelling instantly.
Improved Blood Flow = Healing
It is a fact that blood flow is necessary to heal any injury. The best way to increase blood flow is by using the BFST, a medical device made and sold by King Brand Healthcare Products. The BFST is a comfortable wrap that you wear around your ankle for twenty minutes at a time, three or four times a day. It increases your blood flow gradually over time, and results in healing and strengthening the muscles, tendons, and ligaments in the entire area that you treat – healing, and preventing reinjury.
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