i need to break or badly sprain my ankle, please help!?

Question

i don't care about the pain but i need a method that i can do on my own. i love dance, but i need to get out of it for a while as we have a performance coming up and i suck at performing (nerves). plus i think i'm fatter than most other dancers and i'm embarrassed of performing with my skinny friends... if you've ever broken or sprained something i need your help.

i've been trying hitting my ankle with rocks, hammers, etc. and jumping from high heights on one leg, but i have stong bones and ligaments. i've tried dropping 30lb weights (heaviest that i own) on my bare foot over and but that hurts incredibly but just doesn't break anything! the ankle/foot gets swollen but gets back to size quickly and doesn't even look bruised. i need the swelling to stay for a while and prefer to have some bruising too. don't try to talk me out of this, please, i just need to break or sprain an ankle. please help... thanks, celine.

Answer 1

Don't do this, any sprain or break in the ankle could end your dancing career for life, not just for a few months.

There are lots of injuries that don't show. A torn hamstring is a good one (I'm assuming you know where your hamstring is - it's the long muscle running from your butt to the back of your knee). If your hamstring is torn then you can't lift or extend the leg, which pretty much rules out performing.

It sounds like you're worried that people will think you are faking it, if they can't see evidence of the injury. The solution to that, is to fake being injured IN CLASS. That's easy to do.

Hamstrings tear when you are not warmed up enough, and you do anything that suddenly stretches the back of your leg. So for instance, if you tried to go into the splits fast, the hamstring on your front leg could tear. Or if you are doing a hurdler stretch, or stretching over your leg on the barre and bend forward suddenly instead of carefully.

When it happens, you can feel it rip and it HURTS. So you would collapse on the floor, clutching the back of your leg. When they help you up, you can walk, but make out that you can't straighten your knee.

The back of your leg will be very sensitive to the touch. If she knows her anatomy, the teacher might get you to lie on your front and try bending your knee while she tries to stop you. If you have a hamstring tear, that will hurt and you won't be able to do it.

Having said all that, I do think you need to address the root cause of this problem. I'm not talking about the nerves - a lot of very famous dancers have nerves their entire career, and learn to live with them. In fact, many say that they wouldn't do as good a performance if they didn't have nerves. I'm talking about the body image. Talk to your teacher and to your parents about that.

Answer 2

OK, i hope you realise that if you go through with this crazy idea, you may never dance again, quite often a bone will not heal 100% good.
Why don't you just do the easy opinion and quit dancing, just say it doesn't interest you anymore.
Recently my boyfriend torn ligaments in his ankle, it's been about 3 weeks later and it's still badly swollen, he's been told by the doctor that it will never be back to the way it was.
I advise you not to do it, just to let you know, if you do get manage to break your leg and if the bone gets shattered too much, there's a good chance you'll lose your foot, you don't wanna be an amputee do you???
You may just wanna do this to get outta dance, but you'll probably suffer from it for the rest of your life, as most breaks don't come 100% good

Answer 3

DON'T HURT YOURSELF.
By breaking your ankle, you'll never have a chance to improve in your preforming skills. I'd much rather talk you out of it: spraining your ankle isn't much better and you won't be able to walk for a while. So work on your performing skills and another thing: everyone thinks that they're fat. One of the healthiest people I know, also very thin almost underweight, thinks she's overweight and is almost anorexic.
My advice is to seek help with your 'nerves' problem and also mental help because no dancer in their right mind would actually want to break/sprain their ankle.

Answer 4

You can do a very good job with pretending and staging it, but please please don't do it for real. If you tear a ligament it takes very long time to heal, it may be damaged permanently, meaning you'll have trouble walking for the rest of your life, nevermind dancing. I sprained my hip joint (accidentally) and I ended up quitting gymnastics because of it. You don't have a good control of what will you damage if you do it. If you keep jumping off the heights, how do you know it will be your leg not your spine?
I hope you know what are the consequences of braking the spine.

For swelling, can you catch a life bee and make it sting your ankle. Just press bee's butt on it. Be careful - if you are allergic to bees, it can be more dramatic than you want.

Explain one thing: how a dance performance can be worth hurting yourself? Your body should be the most important thing for you as a dancer. How did you come to such a misery that you need to hurt yourself over it? If you love to dance, there are PLENTY of other opportunities. Just tell those people that you cannot perform this season with them. Don't let them guilt you for quitting, because you are entitled to have a choise. Allow yourself to quit or to have a brake. They have to respect your decision. If they really value you, they will take you back whenever you're ready. Now it seems you're not ready and it's OK. Find some other group that doesn't make you nervous and dance with them.

Answer 5

I badly sprained my ankle about 3 weeks ago. I was in a hurry going down the stairs, lost my balance and landed on a bad side of my left foot, causing my left ankle to be stretched going on the inside. The first 48 hours were excruciating and the pain was un-believable. I've never had a serious ankle injury before.

So I immediately treated it using the RICE method. The following day, the bruising and swelling were so horrible. I found out that I got a second degree sprain and immediately panicked after that. I had a football game on that week and it been looking forward to it because I've been training for rt. I had teammates that had similar injuries and it took them months to fully recover, some of them stopped playing altogether. So I kinda had a short-term depression because I can't imagine myself not being able to run and play sports anymore.

Because I was so desperate to recover again, I contacted a lot of people that I know who do sports and asked them if they had similar injuries. One friend of mine, from the boy's football team in my university, told me about H.E.M. Ankle Rehab. I got a copy 4 days after I got injured. I immediately read and followed what was instructed and felt improvement on the first day. I was able to walk a bit, but I was in pain.

A couple of days after that, the swelling and bruising were subsid-ing significantly and on the fourth day, I was walking comfortably again. Although I've had felt a bit of stiffness, I continued doing what was instructed. My sister was surprised that I have recovered this fast. I told her about this book and was shocked on how effective the procedures were. I'm just so happy that this book was shared to me and how effective it is.

Heal your ankle fully & fast?

Answer 6

Pretend of a terrible injury in your ankle.
Don't break it as you may never be able to dance again..
Just keep hitting it so it gets bruised red and swollen, Then tell your parents and say you can't walk and bawl your eyes out ( do this at school pretend to fall on the way back from the toilet whatever ).. Then you will have to go to hospital!! Get crutches and a bandage! FAKE IT ! that way you will get out of it

Answer 7

You've solved your dilemma yourself: Create a dance performance based on one trying to injure their ankle. Any work of art could be self referential in that way. The work is about the tortured artist trying to rid himself of the offending thing that creates the art. Since I am a Yahoo answerer artist and I hate myself for it, I will now behead myself. Or should I cut my fingers off?

Answer 8

i agree with the ones that say u should not since it could damage something for life. Yeah, fake it. Maybe use a belt to hit yourself to get it red( it would sting but not break anything, or just wrap your foot up. other things you could do are fake it that you have serious cramps in your legs or other cramps, then you wouldn't need to show as much evidence. DO NOT HURT your self. you could do serious body damage and regret it later!

Answer 9

Hurting yourself is NOT the answer. You could do irreversable damage. If you are embarrased about dancing on stage, just be honest. People will have more respect for you for telling the truth. Please do not hurt yourself. If you truely love to dance you'll want to do it again someday. There are people who you can talk to about getting on a healthy diet, and if you feel like you need to talk to someone about your self-esteem there are places you can go as well. I hope everything works out.

Answer 10

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