Ok, so for those of you who watched my last video, here's an update.
I ended up going to my chiropractor, who is amazing and I trust a lot - he's gotten me through lots of aches and pains (including a herniated disc in my back), but has never actually done anything with my foot or ankle. He said my heel was locked into a weird position from all the tight muscles around it, and he rolled my ankle around in a bunch of weird ways, and did a little massaging. It felt really scary and vulnerable to have him handling my foot/ankle/leg like that - it kinda freaked me out. As he was rolling it around it felt a little crunchy inside, not quite popping, but like stuff was stuck. Then my heel area gave out a teeny pop.
It felt fine and I left. I iced a little that evening, and the next morning I woke up and the muscles on top of my ankle all the way up my shin were SO TIGHT. But, incidentally, the part of my ankle/foot that hurt originally felt better. The next few days kinda sucked - a lot of tightness - I iced a lot and took ibuprofen, which seemed to help. Then yesterday (5 days after the chiro) I went and got a massage and she helped to relax a lot of the muscles in my calf/achilles/ankle/foot which felt great.
She also reminded me that I knew this kind of injury would be a life-long thing to deal with, and I've had so many back/shoulder problems that I've kind of been negligent. Especially since I've been doing a lot of barre, which is pretty demanding on that area, I should have been getting massages there more regularly.
So that's the lesson, folks. Even when things are feeling good, keep up with whatever it is that makes your ankle loose and feeling good. Because when you start to get too relaxed, your issues will come back and make you hate yourself and feel like shit all over again.
Until next time!
Mihal
