Still, the words "midfoot sprain" tend to evoke frightening memories of the former Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, who missed the second half of the 2008 season after he sprained the Lisfranc ligament in his right foot.
This raised frightening memories of 1993, when the president had to crush a rebellious parliament with artillery.Mr Luzhkov is sounding warier this time round, saying that Mr Primakov's sacking is regrettable but legal.
Although it is billed as a one-year break, Hakkinen has cast doubt over whether he will ever return to racing, admitting that his accident in this year's Australian grand prix raised frightening memories of his much more serious smash practising for the 1995 race at Adelaide.
Two studies published in the past week break new ground in the effort to take the fright out of frightening memories, both of them exploring the opportunity afforded by sleep to do so.
In an evolutionary context, enhancing the storage of frightening memories makes sense: the more vividly you remember scary situations, the more likely you may be to stay away from them in the future.
The symptoms people typically experience after an event of this magnitude are flashbacks (vivid reproductions of the event) or the recurrent re-experiencing of the trauma, frightening memories, nightmares.
But, he added, "we found, to the contrary, that patients actually did better" and even had a significantly lower rate of post-traumatic stress disorder, which is manifested by such things as mood disorders, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, shortness of temper and frightening memories.
For Rebecca Granda and others, the quake brought back frightening memories.
Glenn describes how his mother has been fainting in the grandstand, still frightened by memories of the typhoon.
He faces deteriorating health, increasingly frightening lapses of memory, loneliness and the prospect of a bleak, empty future.
