Biology!!
There is a bone in your ankle. It's called the talus. It, with the help of some tendons and muscles, is pretty much the bone that connects your leg to your foot. It sits on top of your foot and your tibia and fibula (the leg bones) rest on it.
There is nothing I want more right now than to have my talus in the proper place. Because of an ankle sprain I sustained in first year, it pops out of place frequently. Rather, it is a little out of place and whenever I come down on it funny or, say, play goal in broomball*, it pops further out of position and generally causes a lot of pain and difficulty walking and standing. For the record, I played goal in broomball tonight, and walking is now very, very difficult.
*Appendix A
A short lesson in broomball for the uninitiated:
Broomball is similar to hockey. It is played on a hockey ice surface, using hockey nets. Broomball players however, wear boots instead of skates on the ice, and instead of a puck, they hit a frozen blue bouncy ball roughly the size of a European handball. Rather than hockey sticks, they use a stick with a funny-looking rubber thing on the end. People fall down a lot.
There is nothing I want more right now than to have my talus in the proper place. Because of an ankle sprain I sustained in first year, it pops out of place frequently. Rather, it is a little out of place and whenever I come down on it funny or, say, play goal in broomball*, it pops further out of position and generally causes a lot of pain and difficulty walking and standing. For the record, I played goal in broomball tonight, and walking is now very, very difficult.
*Appendix A
A short lesson in broomball for the uninitiated:
Broomball is similar to hockey. It is played on a hockey ice surface, using hockey nets. Broomball players however, wear boots instead of skates on the ice, and instead of a puck, they hit a frozen blue bouncy ball roughly the size of a European handball. Rather than hockey sticks, they use a stick with a funny-looking rubber thing on the end. People fall down a lot.