Achilles tendon Epidemic among Elite Ethiopian Athletes

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the cause/s of Achilles tendon injury among elite Ethiopian middle and long distance athletes. The subjects of the study are 11{3 female and 8  male} athletes age  ¯x=24.63, all  reported to  our center complaining Achilles tendon pain.Assassment card was used to carefully register the subjective and the objective findinings.Different therapeutic procedures, such as massage{manual and machine},paraffin wax, American plaster, etc was used. Most of them recovered from their pain and demonstrated full range of motion. The most probable cause is found to be training terrain and poor coaching. It can be concluded that coaches should give due attention while training on rough and tough trainees (hilly, ups and downs).