To prevent Achillodynia (Achilles tendon pain), attention must be paid to reducing individual risk factors.
Behavioral risk factors
- Physical activity
- Chronic misuse/overuse of sports activities:
- Sports that involve a lot of running and jumping or rapid acceleration and deceleration – track and field athletes are especially affected, but so are athletes in other running and jumping sports (e.g., ballet dancers, mountain runners, tennis, squash, soccer, volleyball, handball, basketball, badminton)
- With decisive are
- Frequency and duration of the load, training intensity, duration of the regeneration phases.
- Surface – hard ground is unfavorable.
- Outdoor temperatures – too cold is unfavorable
- Footwear – the anatomy of the foot must be taken into account.
- Especially prolonged unaccustomed sports activities favor microruptures at the Achilles tendon
- With decisive are
- Sports that involve a lot of running and jumping or rapid acceleration and deceleration – track and field athletes are especially affected, but so are athletes in other running and jumping sports (e.g., ballet dancers, mountain runners, tennis, squash, soccer, volleyball, handball, basketball, badminton)
- Chronic misuse/overuse of sports activities:
- Overweight (BMI ≥ 25; obesity).
