The Achilles tendon is the largest and strongest connective tissue tendon in the human body and can withstand a force of over one thousand pounds. It is located in the back of the lower leg, attaches to the heel bone, and connects the leg muscles to the foot.
The achilles tendon gives you the ability to rise up on your toes, facilitating the act of walking and running. The achilles tendon does not have good blood supply or cell activity and so making the healing process extremely slow for that area. The more blood flow there is to injures connective tissue, the faster the healing process.
Collagen is a protein that helps strengthen the structure of the tissues such as tendons, cartilage, and ligaments. The key to restoring the health of the achilles tendon is to actually facilitate the production of fibroblast cells and collagen in that area and reduce of correcting the cause of the abnormal stress to the ankle connective tissue.
So basically stay off of your achilles tenson. Anti-inflammatories can be very helpful, however chronic achilles tendonitis is rarely resloved with just a steroid injection or an ankle brace. In the many cases the cause of the chronic pain was never addresses, not to mention the many side effects of continuously using strong anti-inflammatory oral of injectable medications including the fact that strong anti-inflammatory medications can greatly interfere with the collagen and fibroblast production of an injured tendon, the very thing that helps the healing process.
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