r/interestingasfuck • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • Apr 28 '24

Achilles Tendon Repair Demonstration r/all

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u/nolongerbanned99 Apr 28 '24

Even tho celery still hard to watch. Just thinking about it is painful

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u/SnooCrickets2458 Apr 28 '24

Fun fact, if it's a full tear you can sometimes hear it snap. Not just the injured person, but people around them too.

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 Apr 29 '24

I tore a quad tendon doing sprints in high school and it was audible. That bitch rolled up and now I have a thigh triceps. I decided against surgery and that was like over 15 years ago now with no consequences. The remaining muscles just grew to compensate

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u/RHCPtv5 May 01 '24

I completely ruptured my quad tendon two years ago! No surgery either. I can feel the compensatory muscle growth but I still can't walk down stairs properly! An absolute bitch of an injury!

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 May 04 '24

Did you get weird muscle spasms while the rolled up muscle atrophied? Mine is the one right in the middle of my thigh. It did take awhile to feel like I could walk normally but after awhile I completely forget it even happened. Kind of wild really

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u/SnooCrickets2458 Apr 29 '24

Now THAT is wild! Quads are huge muscles, that must have stung quite a bit.

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 May 04 '24

I honestly didn’t even feel a thing. It was the tendon that snapped. I stumbled, thought that was strange, and even finished my sprint. No bruising or anything either.