Knee bone

Uncorrelated symptoms noted and simply lived with; sore Achilles especially in the morning, one leg 7 mm longer than the other, very stiff neck at times especially when turning to the right, and sore lower back.

Variously treated and independently diagnosed as (in order); tight calf muscles and hammies (stretches from physio), shoe inserts as part of sore arch treatment (podiatrist), wholly untreated, bulging disc (initially treated unsuccessfully by physio and then mostly sorted by gym work).

The untreated stiff neck led me to a genius remedial massage/osteo/physio, who diagnosed the whole thing as one incident, a former shoulder reconstruction.

Even the leg length as measured by x-ray is an artifact of hip rotation which has now been fixed. The Achilles was fixed entirely in two sessions. The neck needs one more session. Even the lower back gets a look in.

The basic chain of events; shoulder reconstruction led to me protecting it, which led to muscle imbalance around the neck rotator joints or some-such. That ended up putting stress on one side of the spinal muscles which exacerbated that back problem, which led to a shortening of the muscle joining the lower rib and the hip which caused the rotation which led to the artifact of leg measurement, which pulled up on the leg causing more pronation which led to the achilles issues.

Starting with the fascia on the feet, my guy has been moving up my body undoing all of this. He is halfway through, and only two sessions in and I am already pain and niggle-free.

Who woulda guessed?