It is the purpose of this article to review the literature and to report on our experience with two cases of the rupture of the bilateral Achilles tendons. Only four cases have been described in detail hitherto.
Case 1. A thirty-four-year-old house wife sustained the rupture in the sudden movement of the dorsiflexion of the left ankle and of the right in the next step.
Case 2. A thirty-seven-year-old male teacher suffered from the same mechanism in a relay race.
There was no remarkable change in the whole body and no achillodynia in the operative finding.
