For the next six months, anyone comfortable on wheels can join (or watch) the Central Park Dance Skaters twirling, grapevining and displaying ankle bone-defying footwork around a 150ft stretch of dead-end road that serves as the makeshift rink.

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New Yorkers think nothing of turning up at a critical meeting in an ankle-length Driza-Bone coat, bright-yellow sou'wester and a plastic head scarf.

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He will have pain-killing injections for a bruised ankle bone before Sunday's cup final, but said he would be fit for the game in Seattle.

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The 21-year-old turned his ankle and cracked a small bone just above the ankle in his fibia, ruining his hopes of making his first Premier League start against West Ham on Saturday.

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Dr Gregory said there was a basic three-step procedure for dealing with the effects of an ankle bone spur, technically called a "posterior impingement".

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