popping ankles

**jew** · Posted On: 12/27/2006 5:27pm

has anyone ever had an ankle or foot injury which took an extremely long time to heal? i think in my case it is a tendonitis or subluxation injury of some sort. my ankle feels weak and it continually pops and snapps due to this tendon issue (i think). i saw a few doctors and had x-rays done they all told me i should go back to training but i find that doing anything at more than very low level intensity aggrivates the issue. i cannot kick the heavy bag without pains in the foot/shin area. has anyone ever suffered a similar type of injury snapping/ weak ankles? what did you do to heal? any help/information greatly appreciated.

**jew** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 11:17am

at least you can train though, or cant you? did you sustain injuries? if so how? what did the doctor say the popping was caused by? did you have to do physiotherapy?

**Tom Kagan** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 11:25am

X-rays show bones, not so much tendons, muscles and ligaments.

I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. Stop trying to self-diagnose while consulting with anonymous internet fucktards like myself. If you have pain, see an orthopedist who specializes in sports conditions. General Practitioners and non-sports docs don't know **** about people pushing their body's limits.

**jew** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 11:27am

yes yes but i did see two orthopeds and they both told me the same thing. perhaps they dont have enough experience with athletes which is why im asking here.

**Tom Kagan** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 11:37am

Originally Posted by jew

yes yes but i did see two orthopeds and they both told me the same thing. perhaps they dont have enough experience with athletes which is why im asking here.

Alright then, it could be cancer. Is that more like what you want to hear?

**Ming Loyalist** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 11:45am

when i was a little kid i was riding on the back of a bike and my right ankle got caught in the wheel and turned around (think foot pointing the wrong way)

it was a severe sprain and i was in a cast for a while (no idea how long i was like 7 years old.)

to this day (i'm 35 now) that ankle will make popping noises when rotated. doctors tell me it's no big deal, and it's just noise.

i have no pain from that joint (but plenty from my knee, shoulder, neck and lower back, but that's another story for another day.)

**fudgam** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 10:36pm

I severely sprained my right ankle when my senior year started. I pretty much just rolled it, but really really bad. I was doing sprints on the track and caught the edge of the track and put all my wright on my right ankle (foot rolled inward). Made a LOUD pop follorwed by pain. Couldnt walk on it for a couple days.

I took the entire fall season off from running, but was still able to lift weights. Come winter, I got myself a very rigid air brace that I wore under my wrestling shoe. Looked just like this one http://www.medistox24.com/images/pro...gel.jpg651.jpg .The brace plus the high ankle on wrestling shoes made it impossible to roll my ankle (I still had significant weakness in my ankle and would roll it frequently during casual walking). I was able to train and compete at the intensity I needed. I never even came close to reinjuring it while wresting in matches and tournaments.

That was last year. I have no more weakness in my ankle. I dont roll it. It doesnt make popping noises or snap in the morning and I dont wear a brace anymore.

Id say it took me 9 months of babying the injury and wearing the brace during any training to get it back to 100%.

**jew** · Posted On: 1/02/2007 4:41pm

looks like an aircast. see rolling the ankle or pushing the toes down so the foot is pointed an streching doesnt hurt but i guess its more of a strain at a certain spot right beneath the ankle closer to the foot. i think i would like to e-mail a sports doctor who trains m.a. to just ask his opinion but i think it will be o.k. god willing. i just cant deal with waiting for it to heal i hardly have the patience and want to go train.