Morning pain or stiffness during the first few steps after getting out of bed.
ACHILLES & BACK OF HEEL
Heel Hero
Recovery without the appointments.
🇺🇸 Now available in the United States
Specialist heel pain guidance, direct to your inbox.
Because healing stalls and treatment is wasted when the drivers aren’t identified.
Heel Hero brings together the clinical insight, misunderstood loading factors and conflicting recommendations that can continue to drive Achilles and posterior heel irritation.
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Sports podiatrist developed
25+ years clinical experience
7,000+ patients treated
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Heel Hero is now available in the United States Immediate digital access. No appointments required.
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ACHILLES & POSTERIOR HEEL PAIN
Who Heel Hero Is Designed For
Heel Hero is designed for people dealing with Achilles and posterior heel pain that has become persistent, recurrent or difficult to resolve despite previous treatment, rehabilitation or changes in activity.
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Previous treatment without lasting resolution
Rehabilitation, strengthening, stretching, footwear changes or periods of reduced activity have already been attempted, but the problem remains.
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Conflicting clinical advice
Different recommendations around loading, exercise, footwear, rest and treatment can make it difficult to know which direction to follow.
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Overlooked drivers remain unidentified
The painful structure may have been treated repeatedly while under-recognised biomechanical, structural, occupational, habitual or rehabilitation-related factors continue to perpetuate tissue irritation.
The information most heel pain patients never receive.
Heel Hero brings together the critical information most heel pain patients are never given — misunderstood loading factors, conflicting recommendations and unrecognised stresses that continue to drive irritation through the Achilles tendon and posterior heel.
The objective is to recognise what continues to irritate the tissue, modify those factors and provide the conditions in which normal recovery can occur.
INSIDE HEEL HERO
Your recovery blueprint, accessible from any device.
Once registered, you can log in to Heel Hero from your phone, tablet or computer and begin accessing the guidance immediately.
Heel Hero combines written clinical guidance, still images and video explanation, allowing you to browse the relevant sections at your own pace and return whenever required.
HEEL HERO Recovery without the appointments.
Written Clinical Guidance
Structured clinical information explaining the principles, modifications and recovery considerations relevant to pain in the back of the heel.
Still Images & Visual Guidance
Clear visual examples designed to make biomechanical, positional, footwear and loading concepts easier to recognise and understand.
Video Explanation
Direct explanation from Karl Lockett, helping you understand the clinical reasoning behind the recommendations and modifications.
THE SIX CORE AREAS
The foundations of the Heel Hero approach.
Biomechanical Loading Patterns
How foot, lower-limb and pelvic function can alter traction and cumulative mechanical load through the lower limb and back of the heel — including influences that may originate well away from the site of pain.
Under-Recognised Exercise Loading
Certain exercise and fitness patterns can create significant repetitive load through the Achilles tendon while remaining unrecognised by the patient. Heel Hero identifies these less obvious exposures and shows how they can be modified, where possible, so exercise can continue with reduced tissue stress.
Occupational, Postural & Habitual Tissue Stress
Repetitive workplace demands, sustained postural positions and habitual movement patterns can create cumulative stress through the Achilles tendon and back of the heel. Heel Hero highlights these often-overlooked daily exposures and shows how they can be modified without unnecessarily disrupting normal work and daily activity.
Footwear Mechanics & Heel Height
Heel height, shoe geometry, flexibility, rearfoot structure, rocker soles and other mechanical characteristics of footwear can substantially influence loading around the back of the heel. Heel Hero explains which footwear features matter and how to make more informed footwear choices during recovery.
Longer or Stronger?
Rehabilitation Timing & Tissue Load
Stretching, strengthening and progressive loading are frequently incorporated into Achilles rehabilitation, but their clinical value depends on timing, sequencing and tissue tolerance. Heel Hero explains how to distinguish between an intervention that supports recovery and one that simply adds further mechanical load to an already irritated back of the heel.
Mechanical Offloading & Recovery Support
Heel Hero explains how to reduce traction and unnecessary mechanical stress through the back of the heel, with practical modifications designed to support tissue recovery while maintaining appropriate day-to-day activity.
START WITH THE FOUNDATIONS
See Pricing & Get Heel Hero Understand what is influencing your heel before adding more treatment.
HEEL HERO ACCESS
Start with a clearer understanding of what is influencing your heel.
Immediate online access to the Heel Hero recovery blueprint, including written clinical guidance, visual explanation and video content.
HEEL HERO Recovery without the appointments.
US$ 139 one-time payment
A$ 139 one-time payment
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Immediate online access after purchase
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Written clinical guidance
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Still images and visual explanation
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Video demonstrations and clinical explanation
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Access from phone, tablet or computer
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Bonus plantar fasciitis recovery content
90 DAYS
90-Day Money-Back Guarantee
If after 90 days you feel you have not experienced meaningful improvement in pain or tissue recovery despite applying the guidance, you can request a full refund.
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INSIDE HEEL HERO
Clinical guidance wherever you need it.
Browse written guidance, visual demonstrations and video content from your phone, tablet or computer.
Written Clinical guidance
Visual Still images
Video Demonstrations
+ BONUS INCLUDED
Plantar Fasciitis Recovery Guidance
There is considerable overlap between many of the mechanical drivers associated with pain in the back of the heel and plantar fasciitis.
For this reason, it is not unusual for patients to experience both conditions. One problem may develop first and be followed by the other, or symptoms can appear in both areas at around the same time.
Heel Hero therefore includes additional guidance for patients who also experience pain beneath the heel or along the plantar surface of the foot.
Additional plantar heel pain guidance is included at no extra cost.
This bonus content explains how to reduce unnecessary mechanical irritation through the plantar fascia and how to support the tissue while recovery is taking place.
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ALSO INCLUDED Guidance for pain beneath the heel
