Thanks for your reply physiobob... so helpful to read something in english.

i had a meeting with my spanish doctor yesturday finally, and from what i can work out in my broken spanish, explained in my un scientific terms...

my knee is slowly wearing away, but this for me i think is normal, since i have been doing actobatics since the age of 12, both knees probably look roughly the same if looked at internaly...

i had a baker cyst (shown in Wikipedia reference-linkMRI, not to my knowledge), but there is no fluid left in it, it ruptured and filled my calf with fluid, in the middle of my calf in between the muscles i think (i really need a basic lesson of anatomy)

i have broken some fibers in one of the muscles in my calf, which is restricting movement...

at the moment i can walk on a tip toe, i can point my whole leg streight, but a full leg flex pointed (balarina style) still causes pain in my lower calf. i can flex my foot to about 10 degrees off a right angle, but its slowly getting better. i started rehabilitation with a physio, and he used elctronic things to make my muscle flex and release, and then used heat, then ice, and made me make circles with my foot. i have set a date by the 9th of this month to re-asses whether to go to my next contract or not, depending if i can jump and land without pain.

It is still very hard to gauge what pain is good and what is bad for me, i have trained for so long and have been pushed into all kinds of positions, that pain is hard to define for me at the moment. I thought i stopped taking the pain killers so i could feel more about what was going on, but i actually stopped taking the anti-inflamatories because everything is in spanish and i read it all wrong

anyway, many thanks, i think i will heal ok, if i am learning anything from this latest injury is to listen to my body more (i was hurting for a number of days in my leg before this final breakdown injury) and be kinder to my tool, and that i am starting now to have a sinscere interest in the physiotherapy world and practice, this forum is wonderful! something i can study in the future when my body finally say's enough and i can live in one place!

kind regards
reuben