Treatment of damages of the achilles tendon: the historical inquiry

Abstract

Treatment of patients with Achilles tendon ruptures is an actual problem of modern traumatology and orthopedics. Treatment at first sight seems simple enough, but researchers invariably register high frequency of wrong diagnostics of ruptures of an Achilles tendon and complications after conservative and operative treatments, which rather essentially worsen quality of patient’s life. In the domestic literature questions of treatment of patients with Achilles tendon ruptures are in our opinion are reported insufficiently, and in many cases the information has sketchy character. These preconditions are at the bottom of insufficient knowledge of surgeons, traumatologists-orthopedists about true complexity of treatment of this category of patients that is in many respects caused by shortage of the corresponding literature. The given circumstance has induced us to generalize the historical data presented in the literature on treatment of patients with Achilles tendon ruptures. The particular interest for us has presented a historical sketch of the decision of the given problem.