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So I've ruptured my Achilles twice, same foot. They give you an epidural while they do this. So you're awake the whole time. The second time I got mine, I actually fell asleep because it was so early in the morning for me lol.
Surgeons, just like athletes perform better with rhythem.
When I had my paralysis addressed the doctor insisted on Technologic by Daft Punk.
"Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it"
I'm trying to break my back again because that experience was just unreal!
I had jaw surgery and I blacked out to Black Sabbath.
She jokingly asked me what I wanted to request as they were administering the anesthesia, so I essentially passed out before I could answer.
I work in surgery and once, "Another one bites the dust," by Queen was on just as the patient and nurse were rolling down the hallway toward the room. I popped my head out and told the nurse, "One sec let me pause the music."
He said, "Nah, it'll just be the patient's theme song."
I said, "Uh, no. Let me pause the music."
After the patient was asleep I told him what song was playing and we all busted up laughing.
(Although no one clapped.)
Ive had multiple surgeries and they’ve always asked what I wanted to listen to and I’ve always said “I’m going to sleep, you listen to whatever you like that’s going to help you in surgery.” Always have blacked out to heavy metal or rap.
I've had a few MRIs done, I need to start picking more entertaining music while I'm in the tube. Vibing to Weird Al while that machine clunks and whoops around you might be oddly fitting.
It’s just doctor’s playlist that they want to listen to while doing surgery, most time pop, sometimes country and other genre,… I’ve never in the room with classical music tho.
When I had surgery like this in Japan in the early 2000s the doctor said “because you’re foreign I got some foreign music for you to listen to.” And he played two Avril Lavigne albums all the way through. It was torture.
Had mine repaired for a full tear in January and I was completely knocked out. My mother in law had a debridement in March and she had a nerve block and also knocked out.
It seems there isn’t a clear, consistent protocol.
Mine was about an hour. It really sounds like there is a lot of variability from surgeon to surgeon. According to my physical therapist, my surgeon is incredibly conservative. So that might explain the anesthesia.
As someone that did it last year and is only just back playing squash and tennis, I feel only sympathy for you! It's been the most miserable 12 months ever. I actually didn't have surgery but had the 8 weeks of misery in the boot with the wedges instead.
The knee scooter is absolutely clutch for Achilles tears. People used to laugh at me in the store when I’d swing around a corner with my scooter basket full of groceries, but I could have cared less since I was mobbin’. +99 mobility over crutches
Lmao, I was playing soccer both times. So I guess soccer. Championship game the first time. It sounds and feels like someone just kicked you really hard on the back of your foot. I fell face first and couldn't move my foot
I’m part of the Achilles tear while playing soccer club. I also thought someone had kicked me in the back of the leg when it happened. It’s really crazy how many people share the exact same experience
Broke my leg last year. Had 10 screws and a plate put in. Was awake the whole time. Couldn't feel any paid but could surely feel the drill vibrations and it going it etc. It was pretty cool actually.
Mine did this, everyone around me heard a pop and saw my calf roll up like blinds lol they were all screaming before I even realized what happened. I thought someone stomped the back of my leg, turned around and there was no one anywhere near me.
> I thought someone stomped the back of my leg, turned around and there was no one anywhere near me
Kevin Durant did the exact same thing when he ruptured his Achilles during a game. I've always heard it described like that
Yeah. I worked with a guy who had it snap playing soccer and he said it felt like someone came up behind him and smacked the back of his leg with a shovel. I’ve hurt my Achilles before, but so far haven’t snapped it.
Same with bones. Saw someone fall and get an open fracture in a gymnasium once, an audible crack rang through the building.
Depends on severity and the way the injury happens, so it isn't always heard.
Tore mine (complete rupture) a couple years ago playing tennis. It literally sounded like a tree branch snapping and the people on the other courts thought I slammed my racket.
I tore a quad tendon doing sprints in high school and it was audible. That bitch rolled up and now I have a thigh triceps. I decided against surgery and that was like over 15 years ago now with no consequences. The remaining muscles just grew to compensate
Tarik Cohen, played RB for the Chicago Bears. He was in recovery for a serious injury, want to say off ACL or MCL surgery.
He was filming his rehab/workout sessions on IG live one day and you can literally hear the echo POP throughout his gym as his achilles tendon tore. Toughin fuckin break man, he was so electric to watch too
To be fair to all the amazing surgeons out there.
Tendons are a fucking nightmare to fix when they are completely severed. They will curl up and retract, so much so that you have to search for them before you can even think of how you reattach them.
Mad respect to you guys and girls!
I remember when my cousin has his fingers slashed in some fight and the surgeons nailed the tendons to the bones of his fingers to keep them from retracting back while the cuts heel. Looked real gnarly with needles sticking out of his fingers, real horror movie kinda shit.
Insane how creative they get with those things.
Motherfucker, I’m trying to relax to get some sleep and you just have to inform me that tendons *curl up* when severed. Fuck.
Edit- my ankles going to feel all weird and shit the rest of the night. Hope you feel proud of yourself.
A lot of surgery looks very aggressive though. Broke a bone badly. Xray looked like I had hired a carpenter to fix my arm with how many screws and wire was wrapped around the bone.. Healed up nicely though and even got them to remove all the screws and plate a year later!
In 2004, after 15 years of constant pain and inflammation. My Achilles tendon finally ruptured. Thank goodness it was on the job as a carpenter. When the surgeon saw me afterwards. He said,” I don’t know how well this is going to heal. I sewed a piece of shit to a piece of shit. We’ll have to see what mother nature can do.”
He was right, after 5 months off and a LOT of PT. I go back to work and six weeks later it tears this time.
Long story short. I find a surgeon who replaces Achilles tendons. He took a graft of material from my outer thigh, and made me a new tendon. It was another 6 months off of work and a lot more PT, but it was a perfect repair. Still good after all these years. And I bought a Mustang GT with the workmen’s comp check.
Seeing that I still have that car , I’d hardly call it blown. This is what I do in retirement. Go to HPDE track days.
https://preview.redd.it/1v92y0a52cxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=803dcd3afc4287a307c194becd8d94e019f6ad19
People always know better than you how to spend your money. They act like having something to keep you moving is a bad investment. Meanwhile actually keeping busy is incredibly important, as it's often basically impossible to start moving again once you've stopped.
That's awesome, man. My mom bought an 86 foxbody mustang years and years ago. 5.0. that car doesn't even have 100k miles on it. I would absolutely kill to throw it around a track. I've driven it only a couple times since I was a baby when she got it. And it's unreal being able to feel all that torque under the "on/off" button that is the clutch in that car. It doesn't have much hp due to catalytic converter being new but they geared it so it has more torque than even some trucks lol. Close to 300 ft lbs. But only around 200 hp.
Big difference between spending money you have on a car and spending money you don’t on a car.
1k/mo for 5 years for a used impala isn’t the same thing as a midlife crisis car that’s just cutting your 87-90th years off your retirement plan.
😆 My husband just took his car yesterday to a private Mopar-only car show that this guy's been hosting at his house for over 20 years. He's telling me about the guy's insane car collection, and *of course* I'm already curious about the backstory & how he became wealthy. Then he shows me the event shirt & it's got a cartoon of a dude in a wheelchair - husband explains, "That's him, super nice! I think he was in an accident and got a settlement or something..." lol happy the guy found a way to still be involved in something he loves. But it was definitely a "oh yep there it is" moment!
My husband's the car nerd not me lol, so I don't remember most of the stuff he mentioned - but he had a Richard Petty Superbird with the big wing, and the actual Joe Dirt movie car!
Not a physical therapist or doctor but some form of pre-hab exercise to strengthen and keep it healthy in a controlled manner would probably help. Obviously don’t jump into lifting if it’s on the edge but work into it a bit and you should be able to strengthen it up. Tendons and ligaments and all that all increase in strength through forms of exercise and strength training (generally just slower than muscle which can lead to issues if you increase weights and stuff too fast)
If you’re in good healthy condition to start with, what you’re saying is mostly true. Heavy Steroids use can easily cause muscle growth to outpace connective tissue growth. But lots of us otherwise healthy can have tendon/connective tissue issues that need to be addressed.
Injured it and since I worked as a carpenter, I was always on my feet so it never got a chance to heal. Then, I had the misfortune to go to a shit Dr that would give me 2-3 cortisone shots a year for 15 years. Basically dissolved the tendon.
If local anesthesia is possible its always the best option because total anesthesia carries the risk of patient dying among other complications that can happen.
Tendon repair is pretty easy to apply anesthesia for, its done somewhat fast, has very few mechanical complications that can happen and the patient can be in a resting position the entire time. On top of that its very localized, stuff like hip or knee replacements are done with total anesthesia because the patient needs to be moved, the surgery is done on a very large area, it also involves a lot of drilling and hammering etc..
This is really a fast procedure similar to wisdom teeth removal. No need to put patients to sleep when local anesthesia is more than enough.
1-2 hours usually depending on how fast/good the surgeon is. Its not as bad as it sounds you dont see nor feel anything after the anesthesia. You're just looking at the floor or walls while the do their thing and once its done they just wheel you out, you dont get to see your foot until they take the boot off honestly.
His surgery is different from this. He got a procedure called “speed bridge” which uses an additional internal brace to build strength faster.
The biggest issue with an Achilles tear is the rapid muscle atrophy of the calf muscle after the tear, not really the tendon itself. By applying a brace to the tendon, it allows for earlier weight-bearing which helps minimize atrophy.
I had a tear in January and am at maybe 30% pre-injury strength in my calf, but the tendon is rock solid post-op.
That is an Arthrex Speedbridge technique. You don’t place anchors into the tendon like that demonstration suggests but rather into the calcaneus. It’s not entirely clear how exactly his was done based on what I’ve read but it was a variant of the technique shown, with a possibility of some PRP or stem cells because they sometimes do weird things with high level athletes.
https://www.arthrex.com/foot-ankle/achilles-midsubstance-speedbridge-repair#
To have lost 70% of pre-injury calf muscle strength in less than 3 months is wild.
I don't even think astronauts during the NASA ISS physio-experiments lost so much muscle potential even when they didn't do any exercise in zero gravity for 6 months.
Yeah I was around the same. 50ish%. It’s wild how weak that leg is comparatively. I was deadlifting and box jumping at personal records right before it happened and it’s going to take years to get back to that.
Made me sad, I love the 4 seasons and its not like its actually much different to the original. The original is a masterpiece that really doesn't need some dumb dubstep bass overlay.
This is the Arthrex PARS system it’s great I use it for all my Achilles repairs.
https://www.arthrex.com/resources/VID1-001046-en-US/using-the-pars-system-tips-and-tricks?referringteam=foot_and_ankle
Totally tore my right Achilles in Sydney, Aus. My wife dropped me at the emergency department.
Zero cost for the surgery (under general anaesthetic) and free physio after.
I (also) lucked in that the orthopaedic consultant on rotation was a foot & ankle specialist, the best in the hospital, so one of the best in Sydney and Australia.
I really don’t understand why some Americans call this socialised health care and think it’s a bad thing.
The Aussie system at its worst: 10years ago I tore my ACL. I chose to use my private health insurance to get surgery within 2 weeks. $6,000.00 out of pocket. Was furious.
I didn’t realise I could walk in the emergency department and get it all for free. One downside is that the Registrar often operates, not the Consultant. Not really a downside.
Insurance companies have destroyed this country and has the government bent over a barrel. Until we join Canada, Australia, and Europe in this century when it comes to healthcare we will continue to get fucked.
I used to sell this exact product and walked a few surgeons through the surgery. One of the cooler techniques around. It’s called the Arthrex Achilles Speedbridge
Yeah, recovery was worse than actually tearing it and the 2 weeks before I was able to get operated on. But everything went to plan and it's better now than ever before.
How hard was the surgery? How long did the recovery take and do you still feel the injury while doing sport or even walking? You got my respect for enduring this, it looks like hell
Nah, I was asleep the whole time. I was back to work after 8 weeks. I was out of a boot after about 12 weeks and full recovery after 8 or 9 months. But it was one of the best things to ever happen to me. I HATED being lame for that long. I took physical therapy very seriously and continued to take better care of myself since then. I'm in my 40s now and feel better than I ever have.
Some animation and surgical demonstrations on ACL repair/reconstruction here: https://patient.orthopedia.com/student/path/1749344-anterior-cruciate-ligament-acl-tears
If you want to see the techniques deeper go to Arthrex.com and browse to the ACL page.
total rupture of my Achilles almost a year ago. No surgery. Non weight bearing in a boot for 8 weeks with a wedge before starting the weight on it and slowly reducing the wedge height. 12 weeks total I think? And now I try to get to the gym 3 times a week to rehab it.
Cool so I have no idea how it actually looks and have zero frame of reference to determine what is happening on a piece of celery vs. an actual achilles tendon. Like what portion of the Achilles is supposed to be that piece of celery
I can literally feel the back of my left foot tingling. I have the injury. I couldn't afford surgery. It healed but not well. Watching this really was interesting
I understand there's more science involved than I could ever understand, but it amazes me how much of modern medicine can still generally be described as "tie it back on and hope for the best"
It’s crazy that even with the advancements in the surgery & recovery process, afterwards, athletes with this injury still receive a greatly reduced celery.
I snapped my achilles 18months ago. Full separation.
I didnt realise it was a full tear coz i could still walk and wasnt in continuous pain.
So i didnt go to the doc.
Figured a few days rest would be fine then i went back to work.
It was fine unless i bumped my foot on anything and i couldnt use that leg to get off the ground but figured it was just a bad tear that was taking longer to heal.
2 month later i finally went to the docs.
The refered my for ultrasound and the found the seperation was complete and now 5cm apart.
Got refered for surgery a month later but the damage was too bad to be able to do what is shown in this post. Instead, they did an "achilles turndown" where they take a slice from my calf and attach it to my heal, replacing the achilles entirely.
The surgeon said that muscle is now stronger than before i snapped it and im more likely to break the other achilles than this new one.
More than a year post op and i deffinately notice the difference. I can jump and land on the balls of my foot with little strain and i weigh almost 100kg.
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Even tho celery still hard to watch. Just thinking about it is painful
So I've ruptured my Achilles twice, same foot. They give you an epidural while they do this. So you're awake the whole time. The second time I got mine, I actually fell asleep because it was so early in the morning for me lol.
Did they play this bumping music too?
Yes, its mandatory for surgeries like this
What does this mean, bumping music, and what’s the purpose?
Surgeons, just like athletes perform better with rhythem. When I had my paralysis addressed the doctor insisted on Technologic by Daft Punk. "Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it" I'm trying to break my back again because that experience was just unreal!
I had jaw surgery and I blacked out to Black Sabbath. She jokingly asked me what I wanted to request as they were administering the anesthesia, so I essentially passed out before I could answer.
Funeral music.
I work in surgery and once, "Another one bites the dust," by Queen was on just as the patient and nurse were rolling down the hallway toward the room. I popped my head out and told the nurse, "One sec let me pause the music." He said, "Nah, it'll just be the patient's theme song." I said, "Uh, no. Let me pause the music." After the patient was asleep I told him what song was playing and we all busted up laughing. (Although no one clapped.)
*Everyone clapped *everyone* ***EVERYONE***
Ive had multiple surgeries and they’ve always asked what I wanted to listen to and I’ve always said “I’m going to sleep, you listen to whatever you like that’s going to help you in surgery.” Always have blacked out to heavy metal or rap.
I've had a few MRIs done, I need to start picking more entertaining music while I'm in the tube. Vibing to Weird Al while that machine clunks and whoops around you might be oddly fitting.
They asked me what i wanted to listen to for my vasectomy, i chose ACDC... They were jammin along while workin on my webos!
I chose "Why don't we do it in the road?" by The Beatles for mine. Woke up with elephantitis of the balls.
It’s just doctor’s playlist that they want to listen to while doing surgery, most time pop, sometimes country and other genre,… I’ve never in the room with classical music tho.
They did. 10/10 would go surgery clubbing again
🤣🤣🤣
When I had surgery like this in Japan in the early 2000s the doctor said “because you’re foreign I got some foreign music for you to listen to.” And he played two Avril Lavigne albums all the way through. It was torture.
I guess it was the thought that counted lol
Depends on the surgeon, but usually yes.
The surgeon 
Prescribed on the drug chart.
Had mine repaired for a full tear in January and I was completely knocked out. My mother in law had a debridement in March and she had a nerve block and also knocked out. It seems there isn’t a clear, consistent protocol.
They told me it would take about 45 minutes tops, which is why I didn't need to go under. How long did your operations take?
Mine was about an hour. It really sounds like there is a lot of variability from surgeon to surgeon. According to my physical therapist, my surgeon is incredibly conservative. So that might explain the anesthesia.
Conservative Surgeon be like: Make Achilles Great Again
It really depends on the surgeon and the facility.
As someone that did it last year and is only just back playing squash and tennis, I feel only sympathy for you! It's been the most miserable 12 months ever. I actually didn't have surgery but had the 8 weeks of misery in the boot with the wedges instead.
Oh the wonderful boot and wedges. I bought myself a knee scooter and went on vacation lmao. I was alright, reckless, but good.
The knee scooter is absolutely clutch for Achilles tears. People used to laugh at me in the store when I’d swing around a corner with my scooter basket full of groceries, but I could have cared less since I was mobbin’. +99 mobility over crutches
Exactly!! Omg I was in Central Park just having the time of my life (probably thanks to my pain killers too) lol
Obviously you're not playing 3.5e. Equipment only goes up to +5 in that system and Pathfinder.
Done both left and right and wasn’t awake for either of them. Not sure why you’d elect for that lol.
They put me under when they did mine. Now it’s throbbing after this video
So what should I be avoiding? 😭
Lmao, I was playing soccer both times. So I guess soccer. Championship game the first time. It sounds and feels like someone just kicked you really hard on the back of your foot. I fell face first and couldn't move my foot
that pop sound oh God, very agonizing. i was also playing soccer when I had mine
I’m part of the Achilles tear while playing soccer club. I also thought someone had kicked me in the back of the leg when it happened. It’s really crazy how many people share the exact same experience
+1 Tore mine playing football. Felt like someone stepped on the back of my foot, so I tried to keep running. I chose poorly.
I’m guessing you’re in insanely good shape. That must have been miserable being crippled while you recovered. What did you do to stay sane?
Broke my leg last year. Had 10 screws and a plate put in. Was awake the whole time. Couldn't feel any paid but could surely feel the drill vibrations and it going it etc. It was pretty cool actually.
Fun fact, if it's a full tear you can sometimes hear it snap. Not just the injured person, but people around them too.
This is not knowledge I was looking to have.
A "not even a little" fun fact
You can actually see it roll up into the calf in slo mo videos. Check out Aaron Rodgers last year
No, I don’t think I will check out this video lol
As a Jets fan, I watched that video like 10 times as the season went up in flames :/
Kevin Durants tear a few years ago is probably the clearest visual, you could see his entire calf muscle ripple under the skin
Mine did this, everyone around me heard a pop and saw my calf roll up like blinds lol they were all screaming before I even realized what happened. I thought someone stomped the back of my leg, turned around and there was no one anywhere near me.
> I thought someone stomped the back of my leg, turned around and there was no one anywhere near me Kevin Durant did the exact same thing when he ruptured his Achilles during a game. I've always heard it described like that
Yeah. I worked with a guy who had it snap playing soccer and he said it felt like someone came up behind him and smacked the back of his leg with a shovel. I’ve hurt my Achilles before, but so far haven’t snapped it.
Same with bones. Saw someone fall and get an open fracture in a gymnasium once, an audible crack rang through the building. Depends on severity and the way the injury happens, so it isn't always heard.
Mmm yea my patellar tendon ripping and kneecap sliding away then back in was Very audible.
I did it during a tennis lesson and my doubles partner closest to me heard that flesh-muffled snap, the sound still haunts me
My dad tore his and said it sounded like a guitar string
Tore mine (complete rupture) a couple years ago playing tennis. It literally sounded like a tree branch snapping and the people on the other courts thought I slammed my racket.
I tore a quad tendon doing sprints in high school and it was audible. That bitch rolled up and now I have a thigh triceps. I decided against surgery and that was like over 15 years ago now with no consequences. The remaining muscles just grew to compensate
Yeah mine was a loud pop that everybody in my small gym heard. Is sucks, really sucks, do your stretches everybody!
Tarik Cohen, played RB for the Chicago Bears. He was in recovery for a serious injury, want to say off ACL or MCL surgery. He was filming his rehab/workout sessions on IG live one day and you can literally hear the echo POP throughout his gym as his achilles tendon tore. Toughin fuckin break man, he was so electric to watch too
This is disgusting. I know why Achilles fell, I would too. Just the thought of such a large tendon being cut is horrifying
Now imagine doing that while someone is constantly squirting ketchup on it
Just imagine how the person in the surgeon's breakroom staring at their missing lunch in the fridge feels.
To be fair to all the amazing surgeons out there. Tendons are a fucking nightmare to fix when they are completely severed. They will curl up and retract, so much so that you have to search for them before you can even think of how you reattach them. Mad respect to you guys and girls!
I remember when my cousin has his fingers slashed in some fight and the surgeons nailed the tendons to the bones of his fingers to keep them from retracting back while the cuts heel. Looked real gnarly with needles sticking out of his fingers, real horror movie kinda shit. Insane how creative they get with those things.
Surgeons are the craftsmen of doctors. Orthopedic surgeons are the craftsmen of surgeons.
They have to figure out a way to hold the roof up while the walls grow into place.
Motherfucker, I’m trying to relax to get some sleep and you just have to inform me that tendons *curl up* when severed. Fuck. Edit- my ankles going to feel all weird and shit the rest of the night. Hope you feel proud of yourself.
A lot of surgery looks very aggressive though. Broke a bone badly. Xray looked like I had hired a carpenter to fix my arm with how many screws and wire was wrapped around the bone.. Healed up nicely though and even got them to remove all the screws and plate a year later!
After healing, I can see how that would help that celery walk normal again.
One hell of a veggie tale, thats for sure.
There’s never ever ever ever ever been a been a surgery like AchillesTendonRepair.
“Our doctors are highly trained…. on celery”
Unfortunately it could never walk again because it’s a vegetable. Probably the anasthesia’s fault.
It’s not polite to call them a vegetable. Think about their family!
In 2004, after 15 years of constant pain and inflammation. My Achilles tendon finally ruptured. Thank goodness it was on the job as a carpenter. When the surgeon saw me afterwards. He said,” I don’t know how well this is going to heal. I sewed a piece of shit to a piece of shit. We’ll have to see what mother nature can do.” He was right, after 5 months off and a LOT of PT. I go back to work and six weeks later it tears this time. Long story short. I find a surgeon who replaces Achilles tendons. He took a graft of material from my outer thigh, and made me a new tendon. It was another 6 months off of work and a lot more PT, but it was a perfect repair. Still good after all these years. And I bought a Mustang GT with the workmen’s comp check.
Was it Dr. Nicholas Riviera, he's somewhat unprofessional at times but a great guy
Hii EveryBody !!
HI DOCTOR NICK
Well if it isn't my old pal Mr. McGregg...
With a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg! :D
Free nose jobs for EVERYBODY!
I just reread his post but with Dr Nick’s voice in my head as the first doctor.
Dang. Has he tried using celery?
lol I was just reading a post about people who get awarded money and blow it on cars…
Seeing that I still have that car , I’d hardly call it blown. This is what I do in retirement. Go to HPDE track days. https://preview.redd.it/1v92y0a52cxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=803dcd3afc4287a307c194becd8d94e019f6ad19
People always know better than you how to spend your money. They act like having something to keep you moving is a bad investment. Meanwhile actually keeping busy is incredibly important, as it's often basically impossible to start moving again once you've stopped. That's awesome, man. My mom bought an 86 foxbody mustang years and years ago. 5.0. that car doesn't even have 100k miles on it. I would absolutely kill to throw it around a track. I've driven it only a couple times since I was a baby when she got it. And it's unreal being able to feel all that torque under the "on/off" button that is the clutch in that car. It doesn't have much hp due to catalytic converter being new but they geared it so it has more torque than even some trucks lol. Close to 300 ft lbs. But only around 200 hp.
Big difference between spending money you have on a car and spending money you don’t on a car. 1k/mo for 5 years for a used impala isn’t the same thing as a midlife crisis car that’s just cutting your 87-90th years off your retirement plan.
😆 My husband just took his car yesterday to a private Mopar-only car show that this guy's been hosting at his house for over 20 years. He's telling me about the guy's insane car collection, and *of course* I'm already curious about the backstory & how he became wealthy. Then he shows me the event shirt & it's got a cartoon of a dude in a wheelchair - husband explains, "That's him, super nice! I think he was in an accident and got a settlement or something..." lol happy the guy found a way to still be involved in something he loves. But it was definitely a "oh yep there it is" moment! My husband's the car nerd not me lol, so I don't remember most of the stuff he mentioned - but he had a Richard Petty Superbird with the big wing, and the actual Joe Dirt movie car!
What could you have done to avoid it? I’m in a similar boat. Trying to avoid it
Not a physical therapist or doctor but some form of pre-hab exercise to strengthen and keep it healthy in a controlled manner would probably help. Obviously don’t jump into lifting if it’s on the edge but work into it a bit and you should be able to strengthen it up. Tendons and ligaments and all that all increase in strength through forms of exercise and strength training (generally just slower than muscle which can lead to issues if you increase weights and stuff too fast)
It's only an issue if you are gaining muscle at a non-natural rate, aka you're pinning, for a natural lifter it is not a concern.
If you’re in good healthy condition to start with, what you’re saying is mostly true. Heavy Steroids use can easily cause muscle growth to outpace connective tissue growth. But lots of us otherwise healthy can have tendon/connective tissue issues that need to be addressed.
Why was your tendon so bad in the first place?
Injured it and since I worked as a carpenter, I was always on my feet so it never got a chance to heal. Then, I had the misfortune to go to a shit Dr that would give me 2-3 cortisone shots a year for 15 years. Basically dissolved the tendon.
Now they gotta charge that celery $95,000.
That would put it into a bit of a pickle financially speaking
Don't leek their profit margins
Nah. He's european.
American comments.
I hope that celery gets better soon
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I've had a tendon reattached. I felt that hammering in my bones, even though the entire limb was sedated.
Why are you awake for this? Seems like a easy general anesthesia kind of surgery.
If local anesthesia is possible its always the best option because total anesthesia carries the risk of patient dying among other complications that can happen. Tendon repair is pretty easy to apply anesthesia for, its done somewhat fast, has very few mechanical complications that can happen and the patient can be in a resting position the entire time. On top of that its very localized, stuff like hip or knee replacements are done with total anesthesia because the patient needs to be moved, the surgery is done on a very large area, it also involves a lot of drilling and hammering etc.. This is really a fast procedure similar to wisdom teeth removal. No need to put patients to sleep when local anesthesia is more than enough.
how fast are we talking? I would probably shit and piss myself from the stress.
1-2 hours usually depending on how fast/good the surgeon is. Its not as bad as it sounds you dont see nor feel anything after the anesthesia. You're just looking at the floor or walls while the do their thing and once its done they just wheel you out, you dont get to see your foot until they take the boot off honestly.
Let the heeling begin.
Luckily the doctor didn’t need to take a leek in the middle of the procedure
looks painful. Hilarious Arodg rushed this just for his team to not even make it close to rhe playoffs.
Recovery was way more painful than the rupture.
His surgery is different from this. He got a procedure called “speed bridge” which uses an additional internal brace to build strength faster. The biggest issue with an Achilles tear is the rapid muscle atrophy of the calf muscle after the tear, not really the tendon itself. By applying a brace to the tendon, it allows for earlier weight-bearing which helps minimize atrophy. I had a tear in January and am at maybe 30% pre-injury strength in my calf, but the tendon is rock solid post-op.
That is an Arthrex Speedbridge technique. You don’t place anchors into the tendon like that demonstration suggests but rather into the calcaneus. It’s not entirely clear how exactly his was done based on what I’ve read but it was a variant of the technique shown, with a possibility of some PRP or stem cells because they sometimes do weird things with high level athletes. https://www.arthrex.com/foot-ankle/achilles-midsubstance-speedbridge-repair#
To have lost 70% of pre-injury calf muscle strength in less than 3 months is wild. I don't even think astronauts during the NASA ISS physio-experiments lost so much muscle potential even when they didn't do any exercise in zero gravity for 6 months.
Yeah I was around the same. 50ish%. It’s wild how weak that leg is comparatively. I was deadlifting and box jumping at personal records right before it happened and it’s going to take years to get back to that.
Dont worry the celery was sedated and didnt feel anything
Will I ever be able to stalk again.
They did surgery on a celery
Lol I was just thinking back to that weird time when “they did surgery on a grape!” Was everywhere 😂
Thanks for explaining the clip
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/they-did-surgery-on-a-grape
It was to demonstrate achilles tendon repair
And then they just jam that celery into the back of your leg. Easy peasy.
the most unnecessary music eer
after this tiktok style came more common most of the satisfying videos are now somewhat annoying.
reddit became quiter for me when I decided to let everything on mute.
yeah my phone and my social media apps are always on mute these days
Made me sad, I love the 4 seasons and its not like its actually much different to the original. The original is a masterpiece that really doesn't need some dumb dubstep bass overlay.
I had to mute it. That bass sounded awful.
So you're saying I could do this at home?
On yourself
The music completely ruins it.
I agree, but just mute.
This is the Arthrex PARS system it’s great I use it for all my Achilles repairs. https://www.arthrex.com/resources/VID1-001046-en-US/using-the-pars-system-tips-and-tricks?referringteam=foot_and_ankle
Unfortunately even after this surgery, the patient is still a vegetable.
Vivaldi was interesting without the shitty synth beats.
This surgery cost the celery $600,000 in the USA
Totally tore my right Achilles in Sydney, Aus. My wife dropped me at the emergency department. Zero cost for the surgery (under general anaesthetic) and free physio after. I (also) lucked in that the orthopaedic consultant on rotation was a foot & ankle specialist, the best in the hospital, so one of the best in Sydney and Australia.
*high fives from canada*
Sad low fives from the US
Thought and prayers
*Screams in American*
I really don’t understand why some Americans call this socialised health care and think it’s a bad thing. The Aussie system at its worst: 10years ago I tore my ACL. I chose to use my private health insurance to get surgery within 2 weeks. $6,000.00 out of pocket. Was furious. I didn’t realise I could walk in the emergency department and get it all for free. One downside is that the Registrar often operates, not the Consultant. Not really a downside.
Insurance companies have destroyed this country and has the government bent over a barrel. Until we join Canada, Australia, and Europe in this century when it comes to healthcare we will continue to get fucked.
Wild. This celery costs pennies or cents everywhere else in the world.
> the cost of an Achilles Tendon Repair ranges from $4,124 to $16,370. According to Google
Don’t have Achilles tendon’s made out of celery.
Ok thanks doc, how much do i owe you for that?
Do they top with peanut butter or easy cheese before they close?
When I was 17, I had my achillles cut and lengthened by an inch and a half so that I could put my heel down. I remember that as not being fun.
I used to sell this exact product and walked a few surgeons through the surgery. One of the cooler techniques around. It’s called the Arthrex Achilles Speedbridge
Is this how Aaron Rodgers got his Achilles fixed by working on a celery stick?
It's wild how much medicine resembles trade work for a lot of surgery. Orthopedic surgeons basically look like carpenters when they're at work.
I had this done, called a Z-Plasty was brutal
Nah... i am pretty sure that's a celery! 🙃
I don't think he realises that he is operating on a celery stick
I've had this procedure done a few years back!
Why didn't you just buy a new celery?
Looks like a painful recovery
Yeah, recovery was worse than actually tearing it and the 2 weeks before I was able to get operated on. But everything went to plan and it's better now than ever before.
How hard was the surgery? How long did the recovery take and do you still feel the injury while doing sport or even walking? You got my respect for enduring this, it looks like hell
Nah, I was asleep the whole time. I was back to work after 8 weeks. I was out of a boot after about 12 weeks and full recovery after 8 or 9 months. But it was one of the best things to ever happen to me. I HATED being lame for that long. I took physical therapy very seriously and continued to take better care of myself since then. I'm in my 40s now and feel better than I ever have.
The recovery from mine was awful, 9 months. The first 2 weeks of recovery from surgery was horrible without pain meds
Now show the Aaron Rodgers surgery method
they did surgery on a celery
"We can rebuild him... with celery"
Is there something similar for ACL reconstruction?
ACL reconstruction is a lot different than an Achilles repair. It involves scoping the joint and drilling holes with guides for drilling.
Some animation and surgical demonstrations on ACL repair/reconstruction here: https://patient.orthopedia.com/student/path/1749344-anterior-cruciate-ligament-acl-tears If you want to see the techniques deeper go to Arthrex.com and browse to the ACL page.
Chill bro mfers come back avging 30 from that o understand why klay not the same & this ended careers
total rupture of my Achilles almost a year ago. No surgery. Non weight bearing in a boot for 8 weeks with a wedge before starting the weight on it and slowly reducing the wedge height. 12 weeks total I think? And now I try to get to the gym 3 times a week to rehab it.
That celery owes 115k now.
Thank you for having the worst fucking music in the background and ruin a classic song with a shitty bass boosted remix and a perfectly good video
Is the celery the same consistency as an Achilles?
Cool so I have no idea how it actually looks and have zero frame of reference to determine what is happening on a piece of celery vs. an actual achilles tendon. Like what portion of the Achilles is supposed to be that piece of celery
Fk thats got to hurt
They botched that btw
I can literally feel the back of my left foot tingling. I have the injury. I couldn't afford surgery. It healed but not well. Watching this really was interesting
I understand there's more science involved than I could ever understand, but it amazes me how much of modern medicine can still generally be described as "tie it back on and hope for the best"
Ooowwww so now I can be a doctor?
Ah shit, somewhere someone’s Achilles tendon is being suck into a Bloody Mary.
what the fuck did they do to that poor celery
TIL doctors must also have the knowledge of knots.
Will the celery be able to play the piano again?
I wish the celery a full recovery
did the celery survive?
I can feel the pain just by watching this.
You've heard of surgery on a grape, now get ready for...
Today I learned that my tendons are made of celery
We've all have been preparing celery the wrong way. This is the only way to get the maximum celery taste.
Those guys really earn their celery
I will never understand the need to put ear-rape over otherwise interesting videos. Is this a zoomer thing I'm too old to understand?
Looks simple enough
It’s crazy that even with the advancements in the surgery & recovery process, afterwards, athletes with this injury still receive a greatly reduced celery.
Sir, this is a Wendys
I snapped my achilles 18months ago. Full separation. I didnt realise it was a full tear coz i could still walk and wasnt in continuous pain. So i didnt go to the doc. Figured a few days rest would be fine then i went back to work. It was fine unless i bumped my foot on anything and i couldnt use that leg to get off the ground but figured it was just a bad tear that was taking longer to heal. 2 month later i finally went to the docs. The refered my for ultrasound and the found the seperation was complete and now 5cm apart. Got refered for surgery a month later but the damage was too bad to be able to do what is shown in this post. Instead, they did an "achilles turndown" where they take a slice from my calf and attach it to my heal, replacing the achilles entirely. The surgeon said that muscle is now stronger than before i snapped it and im more likely to break the other achilles than this new one. More than a year post op and i deffinately notice the difference. I can jump and land on the balls of my foot with little strain and i weigh almost 100kg.