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Let's practice English conversation at the doctor.
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It got very swollen and I couldn't walk.
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If it's swollen, it gets enlarged and puffed up.
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The X-ray shows there's no fracture.
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A fracture is a medical term for a broken bone.
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Oh, great! What did the MRI show?
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An MRI is a scan of the body that can show
the internal organs and that kind of thing,
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different from the X-ray, which shows the bones.
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Unfortunately, it showed a complete tear
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of the man ligament in the ankle.
A complete tear is when something
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absolutely severs, there's no connection.
This is different from a partial tear,
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where part of it is still attached.
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Oh no, what's a ligament anyway?
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A ligament is connective tissue that attaches
bone to bone. This is different from a tendon,
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which attaches muscle to bone.
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Shoot. How long it will take to heal?
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To heal means to get well, and
actually, it sounds just like
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this word, heel, which is part of the foot.
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About 12 weeks then 3 months of physical therapy.
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