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Hello there and welcome to this bonus series of Rompad where I am lucky to be joined here by Paul Hobrat, who is basically

the man you want if you are injured because he will know what's wrong with you and he will tell

you how to get over it. That's fair, isn't it, Paul? It's very kind. Yeah, let's hope so.

Okay, he's done loads. I mean, he's a top physiotherapist.

He's written books on it.

He's also an athlete himself, 16 years as a top kayaker.

Is that how you say a kayaker?

Yeah, absolutely.

Something that probably you wouldn't get, or maybe you do, when you're kayaking.

Do you get Achilles issues? Very rare. No, very, very rare. Your feet are working, but no, it's

hardly unlikely. But we used to do an awful lot of running in our canoeing training. Our coach

used to drop us off 10 kilometres from where we were living and just, you know, make us race back. So that

would happen sort of quite regularly. So we did a lot of running and therefore, yeah, you would

pick up some Achilles problems. The Achilles tendon is probably the most researched of all

running injuries. You know, we could do a series of podcasts on this injury alone. There's so much that we understand about it now, you know,

kind of how to cure it, if you like, in the best way.

And there's some amazing tools that we've got that really speed up recovery on it.

So it's a great one for us to have chosen.

Yeah.

My neighbour is struggling with his Achilles at the moment.

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