I have no idea who pioneered it - AFAIK this is what they normally do for my case (was ~10 years ago) BTW most achilles breaks are dealt with my putting them i

I have no idea who pioneered it - AFAIK this is what they normally do for my case (was ~10 years ago) BTW most achilles breaks are dealt with my putting them in a boot to force the broken bits together and hope that they heal in place - in my case we knew it was damaged but it later broke and my GPs misdiagnosed it so it was broken for ~6 months before we realised