Abstract
I investigated the postoperative course of triceps surae muscle power of 52 cases with subcutaneous ruptured achilles tendon.
The majority of the patients were men in their thirties. The most cause of the injury was sports. Observing the function of triceps surae muscle power postoperatively, I found some results as follows.
The recovery of tiptoe standing ability with injured leg needed the shortest period and the recovery of running ability needs the longest period postoperatively in both fresh and old cases. Perfect recovery of running ability in old cases was not observed. Leg pain after walking and paresthesia and hypertrophy of the injured area were found. 43.2% cases of all did not complain of any trouble postoperatively.
The circumference of the injured leg are one centimeter shorter than sound one and the difference did not recover in both fresh and old cases.
The ergograph was taken to observe the triceps surae muscle power which recovered gradually as time went by postoperatively in both fresh and old cases.
But the recovery in old cases was worse than fresh, especially that of the old cases who had the period of more than two months before operation was the worst.
