The tendon located at side of ankle and above heel is known as Achilles tendon. Because in a Greek mythology story a water nymph named Thetis was trying to make her son, Achilles, immortal, so she...
The Achilles, or calcaneal, tendon links the calcaneus (the bone which you can feel in the back of your foot) to three muscles - the gastrocnemius, the soleus and the plantaris. Contraction of these...
The Achilles tendon is a rope-like structure rising vertically from the back of your heel bone along the back of your ankle bones to the back of your leg where the calf muscles spread out from it.