Before games, players tape their ankles, ice their shoulders and pop Advils.
After the game, El-Amin had the ankle on ice and in thick, brown, elastic bandages that made his right foot look nearly the size of a basketball.
After years of sprains and other injuries, she underwent surgery to correct a bone anomaly, but even with physical therapy, daily ankle exercises, ice baths and ointments, the 25-year-old still hasn't made peace with her feet.
Yet coaches, like most people, she said, "tend to think, 'It's just a sprain, you'll be fine' and they tape the ankle and ice it and the player is back on the field in a few days".
But the medical staff immediately concentrated on his right ankle, applying ice before strapping it up.
But nearly two hours of Trump talk later, I had almost forgotten that we were in an emergency room, and this kid was still sitting here with a sprained ankle – no ice pack or meds to hold him over.
Wade, for one, had his ankles in ice after Sunday's game.
She wraps her ankle and ices it, along with her knees, every day.
At Chelsea, where his ankles require ice treatment after every run-out, they marvel at his attitude to the day job.
The Jazz meets the Knicks for an NBC matinee at 12 30 p.m., after which most of them will immerse their ankles in ice and attach electronic stimulators to aching joints and muscles.
