An individual with significantly weak calves and poor balance is at high risk of experiencing a fall or Achilles tendon rupture, especially when performing sudden movements. — Whalespan
An individual with significantly weak calves and poor balance is at high risk of experiencing a fall or Achilles tendon rupture, especially when performing sudden movements.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“One client we had recently, he didn't know it. He didn't bring it up. He's never had leg or foot issues at all, but his testing, his calves, he's a big fall risk. His calves were crazy weak. His balance wasn't good because he didn't have strength. And he's definitely a high risk for an Achilles.”
“And and if you were to handicap that, like how many years away would he have been from something like that being quite likely? Is this something that's gonna happen before he was 60? Yeah, he's he's definitely in that bucket of he could have been, you know, it's a little fear-mongering, but like he he he wasn't set up to like having to change direction quickly or maybe trips off a curb after dinner in New York, right? Like he could have had something like that easily, right?”