How can you better look after your ankles?
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Hei hei! Jos mä saisin valita, OP Koti myisi meidän kodins. Miks? Tää oli vasta mun neljäs esittely. Mä tunnen, että se pariskunta tekee tarjouksen. Ehkä. Jätä asunnonmyynti OP Kodin kiinteistönvälittäjän huoleksi. Saa tutkitusti parasta asiantuntemusta paikallisista asuntomarkkinoista. Tutkimuslähteenä Suomi tänään kiinteistönvälitystutkimus 2025. OP Koti on hyvä valinta elämäsi tilanteisiin. Eräässä Tjärborin lomahotellissa on kotiin lähdön aika. Ota kiinni, jos saat. Ei, ei, ei taas. Ei haloo, tule takaisin. Varaa talven paras loma nyt. Tjärbori. Lomia, joiden et soisi loppuvan. Tjär, tjär, tjär!
Chris, you have your trouser leg rolled up and your sock rolled down so that your ankle is on full display. That was my intentions, Arne, to display to you my ankle. I have a dancer's ankle. Look at it. Chris, I've never given your ankles a second's thought. I mean, I suppose because they're a lot like mine. I think we've got the same ankles, don't we? No, there are two big differences between you and I physically. One is that I have a lot more hair and the other is that my ankles are nicer. More attractive. Better in every way. Chris, I'm glad that you brought up ankles because that body part is the subject of today's episode of What's Up Docs. We're getting to grips with how ankles work, what goes wrong with them, how we care for them, how we can strengthen them.
So, Zandi, we're doing ankles today. What have you got for me? It's interesting that you were talking about the attractiveness of ankles, because that's quite an old-fashioned idea, that sort of a little flash of ankle could be a thrill, but really only, you know, well over 100 years ago. But it reminded me of an amazing day I spent filming with a Paralympian called Sophie Camlish, who's a sprinter. I was filming her for Operation Ouch. Our kids show on CBBC. Exactly. And she uses a blade to run with. And then she has a prosthetic to sort of go through everyday life that she can put a trainer on. And we were filming an episode that looked at World War I. So the number of prosthetics during and after World War I increased enormously from, you know, in the whole of the UK, they're only making a few hundred a year, up to tens of thousands because of limb loss during the war.
And so we had an original World War I leg that was terribly heavy and it's strapped on around your leg. And then she did try and run with a replica World War I leg. And we asked her, like, what do you think of this and could you run with it? You know, she got a dismal time. And we were sort of celebrating how extraordinary the progress in prosthetics has been. But after we'd finished filming, she did say to me... You know, there is this nice thing about this hand-carved mahogany wooden leg. Yes, it's heavy. Yes, you couldn't sprint in it. But it actually, that World War I leg is quite elegant. And if I was going to a ball, it does have a nice ankle and you could wear a heel with it and it does have its place.
The form and function go hand in hand and people have been very interested in ankles for a very long time. The earliest ankle bracelets are from thousands and thousands of years ago, more than 6,000 BC. Yes, a very long time ago. And it's funny because the ankle is, perhaps of all the joints, a source of erotic fascination. It has been for a long time. And yet, in an odd way, it is the knobliest of all joints.
What is the basic anatomy of the ankle and why is it so heavily stressed?
The knobbly knees competition is a famous competition, I think. But a knobbly ankles competition, I mean, everyone would be there, you know. And knobbliness is almost what you want from an ankle. Yeah, well, that's the thing, isn't it? We don't like a knobble on a knee, but we love a knobble on an ankle. And it has names for the knobbles, of course. The lateral and medial malleoli, malleolus being the singular. And, Zan, you say the ankle hasn't been a kind of erotic interest for more than 100 years, but actually two of our production team have had parents or grandparents say that they can't wear ankle bracelets because...
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