Sounds like your physio is onto it. provided you have a achilles tendinopathy
"Alfredson et al 1998" is the referance - 3sets of 15 repititions 2 times a day 7 days a week with knee bent and straight.
The article showed all patients in the study returned to sport in 12 weeks following that protocol.
For the names of the exercises - knee bent is eccentric soleus and straight is eccentric gastrocnemius