I massage my achilles anyway i can. circular and up and down the sides. I have a giant lump of inflammation and scar tissue so how much pressure and motion depends on day and how sore it might be. Today my left is pretty sore, we rode 40 miles yesterday and even though I concentrate on spinning it still gets cranky.
Keep massaging the calf muscle. Having access to a gym, is there a decent trainer that can show you some good calf strenghtening exercises. I too can walk an up hill all day long but the down is a killer so biking is better as I can climb and coast on the downhill
Am not going to get into the heel down or heel up. As I pedal, I for the most part try to keep my feet level and think about a striding out as if I were walking, so I work my quads and my hams and at the moment I work my right leg more than my left.
Going into the cast with no weight on the leg for six weeks did zippo for me but some say it helped them but it just weakened my calf muscle
okay enough about me, but consider riding the spinning bike at the gym as the impact on the tendon is less than running and walking


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Sky King, when you massage with your hands - how hard? More of a rolling motion?

ps. in massaging my left leg... there is a definite knot about 4 inches up from the heel. I think I dinged it a lot lower than that... not sure what the knot is.