So I’ve always had “weak” ankles (aka. they hurt when I run) but because I’m the type of person that always gets hurt but never REALLY (never enough to need to do anything about it) I never though anything of it. Well, I’ve been in a dance class since January and my ankles started hurting again (I stopped running a while ago so I didn’t have to think about it…I don’t like to run, it’s not fun). Sooooo, I thought to myself, “if I want to keep in shape by continuing in dance classes I better get these suckers checked out.” So I called the only orthopedic I had ever been to (I broke my foot falling down the stairs to a bus once…funny story, but for another time). I called him so that I could be sneaky and fall under the “past patient” title and get in sooner (it works too! I saw this guy 4 years ago, they had to pull my file from storage, but you know, I wasn’t a new patient so I still got in sooner). To make an already rambling story just a little longer, he isn’t exactly sure whats wrong (go figure) but my Achilles feel tight (left worse than right) so he prescribed physical therapy and if it’s not better in 6-8 weeks (doing the exercises before and after I dance) then to talk to him again (or just talk to him when I see him again with my mom’s knee surgery…yeah, my family keeps him in business.) haha Hey anything is better than this (don’t watch if you have a squeamish stomach, it’s Joe Theisman when he broke his fibula and tibia)–>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ1iVRRu6w0