Golden State Warriors player Kevin Durant is likely to start rehabbing his surgi...
- Golden State Warriors player Kevin Durant is likely to start rehabbing his surgically-repaired Achilles tendon almost immediately, and all being well should be back to full strength within a year, a specialist at the Mayo Clinic said on Thursday.
“It takes about a year to get all your strength back in that muscular complex,” she said in a telephone interview with Reuters. The Warriors won the game, leaving the Raptors ahead 3-2 in the best-of-season series ahead of game six in Oakland, California on Thursday night.Recent history of NBA players who have ruptured an Achilles shows that they are out of action for about nine months on average.
Cummings said knowledge of the best way to rehabilitate a ruptured Achilles had advanced in recent years.
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