I actually stumbled across this forum looking up info on walking poles!
I snapped my achilles (good job, there was a 2cm gap between the ends) last summer, and boy is it a long rehab. Walking is now firmly back on the cards, and I am up to 10km+ again. Because of the mess I am in after the achilles my gait and bio-mechanics are all a bit of a to-do, and in the local charity shop at the weekend there was a nice pair of Leki walking poles for a fiver
Well it would have been rude not to eh?
So now I have to give them a go and see if I can get used to them, which is as much a mind shift as anything because (if I am honest) I may have slightly sneered at them before all this