I sprained and broke my ankle while practicing. Timing miscommunication with partner and bad balance...he thought we were stopping when I tried to do a step that I couldn't balance without him. Fell hard and turned my ankle.
I was on crutches for a week or two and went back to dancing after about 6 weeks. The fracture was not detected so it was just diagnosed as a sprain. I continued having pain and instability, but everyone had told me that sprains take a really long time to heal, so I thought it was normal.
Re-injured it 10 months later just doing a random step where I happened to turn my ankle. The x-ray caught the fracture this time (and showed that it was an older fracture), and I had also completely ruptured a ligament and sprained another. During the course of recovery, I also had a pinched nerve in the same foot and Achilles tendonitis.
Recovery: 7-8 weeks wearing a boot, 5 months of physical therapy, cortisone shots. I went back to dancing (in flats) about 3 months after the injury and had worked back up to heels about 2 months later. First competition was 8 months post-injury.
No further problems so far, knock on wood!
), there is now an even greater limit to how I can use that foot.
) repeatedly during a lesson. It was mild at first- of course I made this situation worse by trying to continue running through it. I would go to the gym, run, it would warm up and I wouldn't notice it. Then over the course of a few days doing this same thing, I could no longer do a feather, fallaway whisk, fallaway..and so on. My left leg would completely give out. This lasted for about 3 months. I had to stop running and dancing. All I could do was walk at a slow pace. Eventually it healed, but I continued to get a burning sensation in the muscle after practice for months.
