Achilles tendon ruptures: lessons from professional sport and what it means for you.

Achilles tendon ruptures are receiving quite some airtime in sports media at present, with seven players in the recent NBA season experiencing this injury.

The Achilles tendon is in fact the strongest tendon in the body, but it is also the most frequently ruptured.

 But before we get into how and why this is so, let’s first dive into what a tendon is…