My thesis looked at optimising the outcome of patients following percutaneous and minimally invasive repair following Achilles tendon rupture. Early studies on the management of Achilles tendon ...

The NHS undertakes more than 8,000 Achilles tendon repair operations a year. Here, Elizabeth Brooker, 32, a theatre nurse who lives with her husband near Penryn, Cornwall, tells us about her ...

The plantaris tendon is well known to be difficult to localise/identify, and earlier anatomical studies have claimed that up to 20% individuals lack this tendon. 10 However, recent research on ...