Ankle Operation & playing sports

Hi,

After some advice. I had a break/disloaction of my ankle a few years ago, and returned to playing rugby/football afterwards, albeit with some pain. I saw a specialist this summer who advised I had some cartilage floating in the joint and needed an arthroscopy to remove this. I had this op a few weeks ago, and saw him for a follow up lat week, when he told me he had to drill into the bone marrow to create a scab to replace the lost cartilage. He then dropped the bombshell that as this was a temporary fix, I should refrain from impact sports in future.

My question is what can I do to play football/rugby again, even occasionally? I have read that losing weight is a good thing to do to reduce the stress, so am underway with this now, but are there any sepcific shoes, insoles, ankle supports etc I can use to reduce the imapct through the ankle joint?


Don't want to retire from Rugby and Football just yet!