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Hey Cheetah,

That seems a bit odd of an assessment to me. My experience has been more of compensations occurring up the chain, or parallel. It's easier for me to see how tight hip flexors would lead to a weakened gluteals or problems up the back. I suppose the thought could be that it is shifting your center of gravity forward and your compensation is to pull down on your achilles. I'm definitely an advocate of correcting imbalances, but I don't think that is the only thing you would need to do. I'm not a PT, but I would think that an imbalance that caused more of a rotation in your leg would place a greater stress on the achilles. I've been lucky with my ankles so far, my personal protocol is lots of calf stretches at different angles and heavy, heavy calf raises with toes in different directions. It seems that having strong supporting tendons and ligaments and good flexibility helps to take the pressure off the achilles.

After a long winded comment like that, I don't think the hip flexor correction will hurt (super common as you know) but it doesn't really sound to me like it would be the primary cause of your achilles problems.

On a side note, I've been having some acute knee pain lately. I hate the idea of getting cut, so I went to another player's clinic who is pioneering some new treatment methods. They used ultrasound to check the knee. Turns out no ligament, bone or cartilage damage, which was a huge relief. I did have a ton of fluid build up behind the knee cap. Treatment involved a series of manipulations on the tendons, releasing the knee cap and then wrapping my knee in kinesiotape. I had worried I might lose the season, now I've been cleared to go out and play this weekend. There is definitely something to be said for getting the body into it's proper alignments...

Good luck with your rehab, I hope it goes smooth and you can get yourself back on track quick!