SPORTS
MEDICINE REHABILITATION SECTIONCOMPARATIVE
STUDY OF RECOVERY
AFTER SURGICAL AND NON-SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE
Pantea
Corina 1, Totorean Alina 2
1Faculty
of Physical Education and Sports, West University, Timisoara,
2
Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy
„Victor Babes”, Timisoara, Romania
The study comprises a number of
25 patients with Achilles tendon total rupture, 22 men and 3 women,
aged between 22 and 40. Out of these 15 are sportsmen and 10 practice
recreational sports occasionally. All the subjects were allocated
either to surgical treatment followed by functional rehabilitation or
to non-surgical treatment with eight weeks immobilization, followed by
kinetotherapy. The period of follow-up was two years. Evaluation
consisted in individual clinical observation, clinical measurements,
muscular performance tests and the overall outcome score after the
healing of Achilles tendon rupture. Both the patients with surgical
treatment as well as those with non-surgical treatment regained a
normal functional rehabilitation in an approximately equal interval.
Key
words: rupture,
Achilles tendon.
