New study shows you run faster and more efficiently when your calf muscles are strong, and your Achilles tendons are springy ...

Your Achilles tendon runs vertically between your heel bone and calf muscles. Though the Achilles is the largest and strongest tendon in the human body, the blood supply to the area can decrease ...

The NHS undertakes more than 8,000 Achilles tendon repair operations a year. Here, Elizabeth Brooker, 32, a theatre nurse who lives with her husband near Penryn, Cornwall, tells us about her ...