Ouch!! That doesn't sound good. Although, I have very bad Ankles that I have turned every which way and never broken. The worst was when I sprained it and ignored it for three months. I had to get physical therapy for that one. I have hurt my ankles so much that in high school my mother decided to get me volleyball shoes with braces built in.....smart move!

you really can't wear high tops in soccer so that is out, but i've found some braces designed specifically for soccer, so i'll give those a shot.

brief update for those bored enough to read. last week when i went to my doc for a follow up i found out that his partner is a sports medicine guru who consults for the phoenix suns and worked his way through med school as their physical therapist.
until i met him i was still on crutches as my ankle couldn't support any weight. he came in and spent a good half hour/ 45 minutes messing around with my ankle pushing, pulling, made it pop again, etc. he told me no more crutches, take a lot of advil and he designed a recovery program for me. the next morning i woke up and my entire foot was shades of black and blue - BUT i could move it. it hurt but i could also walk on it without limping.

not too bad considering i'd dislocated it 4 days before.

last night i went for my first real run on it. i ran intervals so i walked 2 minutes, jogged, 2 minutes, flat out run for one minute for half an hour. WOOHOO! my ankle held together! i went straight to the ice pack to limit the swelling and it did the trick. my goal is to play the next game which is a week from this friday. i will continue interval training this week and start working on my cuts and ball handling on saturday. i have hope that i'll actually make it back in this season.:)

That's great news! No more gimpy

Very cool!

I had something going on with a ligament in my knee that "they" wanted to operate on. Completely unrelated to this, I happened to be at a chiropractor, for something else, and mentioned the knee thing in passing. She had me lay down, and, literally, just manipulated the position of my foot, rotating it around for a few minutes. Something went back "into place" and my knee felt better immediately, although it took a few days for the residual soreness to go away. In the 10 years or so since then, it has never gone "out of order" and I sure as hell didn't need a surgery.

sports medicine docs are the shit. good news lookout!

update. i geared up as i would for a game yesterday and ran my body through the paces. other than being a bit winded i held together pretty well. i was wearing cleats and was able to make my cuts and turns pretty well in the grass. kicks from my left (injured foot) are a bit weak but they didn't cause me to fall down and cry like a little girl. well, not any more than usual, anyway.

the verdict is that i'll miss this week's game as a precaution but i plan on being suited up and busting my arse in 9 days. WooHoo!

(I'm on a conference call so nobody bother telling me to get out - this is play time.)

Anyway, I let labrat know that I was bailing out of the training program for the run in Iowa next month because I took a nasty hit in a game a couple weeks back (beautiful airborne flip - real highlight reel stuff) that resulted in a lower back problem causing my left leg to go numb if I run too much.

Of course that doesn't mean I wouldn't play soccer... dummy. On sunday, my second game of the day, third of the weekend I made a sliding tackle, no big deal. Nothing spectacular or exciting, just run of the mill play. I felt something pull a bit though. By half time it felt as if the whole team had taken turns kicking me in the crotch. I finished the game out but the pain was pretty intense so I spent the rest of the day with an ice pack in my shorts. Not a lot of fun.

I've got some nasty bruising on the inside of my left thigh going up to where my belt rests. the pain isn't that bad now, it just pulls from time to time. I'm hoping it is just a pulled muscle and not a hernia. (i've had a couple of those) I really don't want to take the time out of life to have a stupid surgery.

Ah, I love this game.

dun forget new photos for the bruise thread ;)

no photos. the, er, um, swelling, might be embarrassing.

fine, have it your way :p