SON OF A MOTHERLESS GOAT!!! I mean - i love soccer!

[lookout123]

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.

[lookout123]

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.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by lookout123

...he came in and spent a good half hour/ 45 minutes messing around with my ankle pushing, pulling, made it pop again, etc. ...

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.