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Message: [QUOTE="javadoc, post: 5629818, member: 338"] Holy schnikes, an achilles tear sounds to me like something that would happen once in a century, but I've heard of several here, and I can't get my head around that. Makes me wonder... among the general population who are not hard-core athletes, how often does this happen? And at what age? How does the achilles degrade with age? How does weight affect it? Did we evolve with an achilles that lasted only so-many years, and we now outlive that duration? Did we evolve an achilles under much lower body weight? I saw a talk once in grad school about how most of the problems that vex us past the age of about ~40 are things that we have no real evolutionary answer for. Had never thought about it, really interesting. [/QUOTE]