Nikki McCutchenFounder & Owner, Embrace Optimal Health · Embrace Optimal Health

Achilles Surgery Recovery with the Patches

21 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this first-person testimonial, the speaker—an avid exerciser who trains six days a week—describes a chronic experience of post‑exercise soreness caused by lactic acid buildup. After beginning to use a specific recovery patch, they observed that lactic acid dissipated rapidly, eliminating soreness after just a few weeks of use. The speaker then recounts tearing their Achilles tendon in June, undergoing surgery, and engaging in physical therapy. Even during this intensive rehabilitation, they report that soreness is limited to the day of the workout and that the lingering lactic‑acid‑related soreness disappears by the next day, which they attribute to the continued use of the patches.

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I work out like 6 days a week. That's just part of my life. I love that. That's my background is in that. And I was always sore. I mean, like just lactic acid buildup and all of that. And really within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that the lactic acid would just completely dissipate and I was no longer sore. Like I would have to really push myself even harder to feel it. And now I've had an injury. I tore my Achilles tendon in June. And had surgery on it. But now, even now with, with doing PT and all the hard stuff you have to do to try to recoup that muscle, I'll just be sore the day of, but then the next day it's still— it's amazing because it just is just completely— the lactic acid is gone and dissipated.