In history, when I say the word Achilles, people think of the hero of the Trojan War,

being the greatest of all Greek warriors and essential character in Homer's Iliad.

When you think of Achilles in health care, you think of atenon. Now in the Iliad he's presented as the commander of the mythical tribe of the Mermedins,

as well as the person who killed the greatest other warrior at that time known as Hector.

But the Achilles tendon is named Achilles for a reason.

You see, according to the myth regarding Achilles,

his mother Phetus dipped him in the river sticks

as an infant.

She held them by one of his heels, leading it untouched by the waters, and thus that was the only

vulnerable part of his entire body.

The term Achilles heel has then come to mean a point of weakness which can lead to someone's downfall.

And this week in this podcast we're going to be talking about a specific patient's downfall when it comes to the Achilles tendon myself.

We're going to be talking about Achilles tendonopathy

and a little bit on Achilles rupture.

And the reason why?

Well, I decided to start working out again.

And what ended up happening,

I developed Achilles tendonopathyopathy so kick back relax and

let's go ahead and talk about this week's topic me I'm Dr Niket son Paul your

friendly neighborhood internist gastrointestinalologist who's slightly limping today.

Kick off that music, let's get started. Now before we kick off with what is Achilles tendon,

now before we kick off with what is Achilles tendonopathy,

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