subject: Chaz Bono Suffers Ankle Injuries On 'dancing With The Stars' [print this page] Chaz Bono has been showing off his fancy footwork with professional partner Lacey Schwimmer on 'Dancing with the Stars,' but it was revealed recently that he has been struggling with ankle injuries and problems with his knees rehearsals for the quickstep.
Bono now reveals the difficulties stem from one particularly complicated step. He told UsMagazine.com, "There's a step here that's very easy to miss, and several times I've landed on it. That, combined with dancing every day It's a lot of pounding!"
The knee and ankle injuries continued to hamper his performance on the dance floor when he displayed the routine on Monday night's show. Bono admits his famous mother is worried sick he'll do more damage to the joints the longer he stays on the program: "(My mom) was stressed (on Monday night) to say the least! She called me up and she's sending her doctors to help. She's just trying to be as supportive as possible."
Cher has offered to give injured Chaz a medical boost as he competes on TV show 'Dancing With The Stars,' she's sending him to her foot doctor.
Fortunately for Bono and Schwimmer, next week's dance is simple. "We have the rumba," Schwimmer explained. "So it's slow. It's pretty easy and we are going to try and work around (Chaz's injuries) as much as we can."
Dancing is one of the most stressful activities for your feet and ankles, especially, if you're not a professional, but having to dance like one week after week. For dancers, several types of fractures can happen to the forefoot bone on the side of the little toe.
Some signs of a forefoot fracture are pain, swelling, and bruising. If a dancer has a broken toe, he or she may be able to walk, but this usually makes the pain in the forefoot worse. If these symptoms go on for more than two or three days, a foot doctor should examine the forefoot injury as soon as possible.
Until your appointment, stay off the foot (with the injury) and apply ice to reduce swelling, but for no longer than 20 minutes at a time. Be sure to use an ice pack or wrap the ice in a towel so that it does not come into contact with the skin. You can also take aspirin or ibuprofen to help relieve the pain.
It's important to tell the foot doctor when the forefoot injury happened and how long it as been going on. The foot doctor will examine the foot to find the exact area of tenderness and compare the injured foot to the normal foot. X-rays will show most forefoot fractures, although sometimes a bone scan may be used to identify stress fractures.
If you, or someone you love, have injured your ankle or foot, then you need to see a trained foot and ankle specialist as soon as possible.
