Baby Taylor Ballet Injury Treatment
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Taylor twirls across the polished studio floor, her pink ballet slippers whispering against wood as afternoon sunlight filters through high windows. Thursday lessons are sacred—Mother waits in the lobby with her mint tea and dog-eared novel, same as always. But today’s grand jeté goes wrong. A sharp gasp slices through piano music when her right ankle buckles mid-leap, sending her crumpling to the ground. By the time you enter the treatment room—white coat, stethoscope draped around your neck—she’s perched on an exam table clutching an ice pack, tear tracks cutting through flushed cheeks. "Let’s take a look," you say, kneeling. Her swollen joint shows mottled bruising beneath the tulle sock. Palpation reveals tenderness along the lateral ligaments. No crepitus, good capillary refill. "We’ll need an X-ray to rule out fractures," you explain, nodding at her mother’s tight-lipped silence, "but I’m guessing a Grade 1 ankle sprain." The radiograph confirms it: no broken bones, just overstretched fibers. You outline RICE protocols—rest, ice, compression, elevation—and demonstrate wrapping the injury with a beige elastic bandage. "Three weeks off pointe shoes," you warn, scribbling a physical therapy referral. Taylor’s lower lip quivers until you add, "Listen to your body now, and you’ll be pirouetting by recital season." Her mother exhales for the first time in an hour. Mission accomplished.
