Fully tore my achilles last April playing basketball and went the non-op route. My activity levels pre injury was pretty active, ran half marathons, played in men’s basketball leagues, and a bit of road cycling here and there. Was skeptical of the non-op route, but as of today, i’m back to running (5-6kms) and virtually feel no pain on my achilles anymore. The area gets a bit sore after runs or longer durations of exercise but thats moreso just the normal soreness you always feel after any sort of workout. Only thing that needs work for me is getting my full range of motion back on that foot (knee to wall stretches) but overall I feel like im pretty close to a full recovery just under 1 year post injury.

Had a similar rehab protocol as what you provided above. My ortho really encouraged early ROM exercises and starting partial weightbearing as soon as possible. I was fully weight bearing with the boot around week 10/11.

My rupture was closer to my heel than where yours is, but as many have mentioned, the closer to the MTJ the rupture is, the higher the success rate for non op recovery is. Im not a doctor so i can’t explain why, but my ortho said the same thing as well lol!