differential diagnosis
Last reviewed 07/2021
The following conditions which may cause pain in and around the Achilles tendon should be differentiated from true tendon pain (which is almost always restricted to the tendon itself)
- posterior ankle impingement
- os trigonum syndrome
- tenosynovitis or dislocation of the peroneal or other plantar flexor tendons
- an accessory soleus muscle
- irritation or neuroma of the sural nerve
- systemic inflammatory disease (1)
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