Re: tendon achilles lengthening

[Guest guest]

My son is 16 and underwent the tendon lengthening in both legs in December.

It is the best thing we did for him. He had a home therapist come to the house

once a week and he also maintained the exercises during the 8 weeks he was

casted. His casts have been off since the end of Feb. and his physical therapy

ended 2 weeks ago. He is doing great, but does have to keep us his exercises at

home to maintain the looseness he now has. He has much better balance and now

walks bending his knees-which he never could never do. Good luck in your

chosen path-my son doesn't regret it for one minute though. God bless and take

care,

Tammy from PA

[Guest guest]

I was just wondering if anyone has a child that is under 10 that has this

surgery? I was 7 in the early 70's when I had it done.

[Guest guest]

I had it done when I was about 13. I am 28 now.

I had awful pain afterwards. They pumped me full of pethadine and I got sick

too.

The pain wasn't sharp, it was a kind of agonising throbing pain. I think

I've heard since that CMT can stuff up your the brain's interpretation of

pain. It gets dodgy signals, so it amplifies them or does what it can with

them even though they are not clear. That would explain the unbearable

feeling I had. Is this a myth, does anyone know?

I'm just being a whiner really, since I was out of hospital and in no pain

after a week.

Steve

[Guest guest]

Steve you are not a whiner. The surgery hurts.