A 13 year old girl, rides and does various running-based team sports, complaining of pain afterwards (though max 24 hours) "in my heels" (Achilles attachment it seemed).
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She was tight in her hamstrings and, for her age, in gastrocs and soleus. I advised the edge of the stair exercise and a hamstring stretch.
My question though is whether, at this age particularly, there would be benefit (or hazard) in deliberately opting for very flat shoes. She says she wears a shoe like a trainer to school, so appears to be almost never in a flat shoe. I know there are different schools of thought about minimalist trainers and ballet pumps, I just wondered what you thought about maybe it being a more effective way of stretching than issuing exercise that might not be done? Presumably if there's any merit at all in the idea, it wold be best to start with the walking shoe and leave the sports shoe til any symptoms had gone?
Her mother mentioned that she (the mother) had ruptured both her Achilles in the past.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Lucy
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