Here is my feedback after performing the exercises you recommended to me:
I feel my calves more relaxed and I really appreciate. Some exercises I did not fully understand and I would need some clarifications:
1 Hip stretch: Do I need to stretch passively as in passive frog? When I stretch actively, I feel a bit of pain in the right hip.
2 Standing Quad stretch: You say "bend one Knee" Is it bend or lift or both may be. I don't quite understand your key. At the end, do I let my knee go backward or just let it in alignment with the other knee?
3 Calves raises: You say gently roll into the toes. The movement is up and down to the heel from the toes. I guess there is no rotary movement?
4 Do I continue the exercises given to me by my PT, stretching the achilles tendons?
Last week I visited my rhumatologist for a checkup. The peri-tendinitis is back and he gave me anti inflammatory tablets. He proposed cortisone, to which I refused. We talked about ultrasound therapy, and he recommended to me a maximum of 10 to 15 sessions, at the rate of 3 per week. He said not more because after 15 sessions Ultra sound is no more effective. I felt discouraged because I had high hopes in this therapy that you mentioned that I could use every day on a long term basis. He said that we still dont know exactly how ultra sound really acts on the tendons...What do you think?
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