on you this morning it's a pain that can stop you in your tracks we're talking about pain in your heels but there is a new treatment giving people some relief Channel 5's Naomi de Lucia explains in today's medical breakthroughs now there's a new minimally invasive procedure that will help ease your pain and get you back out doing what you love running is is my meditation ARA Morales started running in college eventually running marathons half in 10ks but the wear and tear took its toll it was ju
st um to the point where I had sort of had enough pain in her Achilles tendon forced ARA to stop running she tried physical therapy and PRP but nothing helped her tendon was so inflamed and swollen and painful that you could see it from across the room it was red and swollen University of California San Diego Sports Medicine specialist Ken Taylor uses percutaneous ultrasound tenotomy or P to break down the deceased tendon we're basically taking this needle and we're sticking it into the disease
part of the tendon increasing the blood flow to the tendon allowing the body to rebuild itself naturally without surgery P can be done at the doctor's office reducing the time for the procedure as well as cost with traditional surgery it takes patients at least 6 months to recover with putut they can be up and running in 6 weeks the see it actually look normal again in such a short period of time in a marathon runner I think it's pretty amazing was back running 6 weeks after the procedure 8 mont
hs later she completed the Boston Marathon in 3 hours and 43 minutes Dr Taylor says pickle ball players are also feeling the benefits of P this procedure can also be used for shoulders hips and hamstrings as well as tennis golfer's elbow Jumper's knee bone spurs and planter fasciitis with your medical breakthroughs I'm Naomi de Lucia Channel 5 News
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