I wanted to drop a line.  I’ve been with KStar for a long, long time.  I found MWOD in a desperate attempt to self-heal to avoid the surgery that my world-class orthopedic doctor recommended was my “only option” for a nearly-debilitating case of Achilles tendinosis.  He wanted to “get in there and clean it up.”  Besides leading me to find CrossFit to (thankfully) replace long-distance endurance running, over the years, I’ve used what I’ve learned here to not only regain a fully functioning ankle (and therefore knee, hip, back, shoulders, etc.).  In fact, I have zero pain, zero swelling.  I clean & jerk, snatch, jump rope, box jumps, run, YOU NAME IT.  This is incredible considering I could barely walk for nearly 2 years and the only option given to me by a professional was to go under the knife.  The icing on the cake is my recently regained ability to do rebound box jumps.  Around 2009-2010, the idea of jumping, let alone a rebound box jump, was an utter fantasy.