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Evaluation

Are you evaluating a patient for risk factors associated with rupture of the Achilles tendon?

Does the patient ?

• pursue strenuous, impact-loading athletic activities?

• have repetitive microtraumas to the foot and ankle?

• alternate between a sedentary lifestyle and excessive exercise?

• jog?

Does the patient have a recent history of ?

• prolonged immobilization of the lower extremity?

• obesity?

• blunt trauma to the lower leg and/or foot?

• burns to the lower leg?

• anabolic hormone use?

• systemic corticosteroid use?

• cirrhosis?

• hyperparathyroidism?

• diabetes mellitus?

• renal insufficiency?

• gout?

• fluoroquinolone use?

• rheumatoid arthritis?

• spondyloarthropathy?

• connective tissue disease with vasculitis?

• peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremity?

• syphilis?

• osteomyelitis in calcaneus?

• infectious vasculitis?

Results

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