@dwbfootball I am not a football player, but I do know some things about joint injuries. I rehabbed after surgeries for a badly broken ankle and my husband has issues with knee arthritis and ligaments. Your doctor will need to diagnose all the orthopedic issues first. They need to identify where your pain is coming from. Arthritis often plays a part after a physical injury and any misalignment of your body adds stress and wear to your joints. Pain can also be caused at any point along a nerve from your spine to your ankle and you would still feel it in your ankle. A bulging disc in your spine can press on a nerve causing pain somewhere in the body. If the problems are just in the ankle and calf, some things a doctor may do would be steroid injections or gel injections to add cushioning to the joint space. If there is little joint space and they describe it as “bone on bone”, they would likely talk about surgery. My husband said the gel injection helped his knee pain and it is starting to wear off and it’s been about 6 months since the second of 2 injections . If the issues are muscles, there is a physical therapy technique called myofascial release that can stretch out overly tight muscle and fascia. We have a discussion about MFR on Connect that you can find with searching. There is a provider search at mfrtherapists.com . There is also a website for information at myofascial release. Com . Tight tissues exert a lot of force on the body and on bones and joints. If you can loosen that, it may relieve pain. I do that with my ankle because the scar tissue from the injury and surgery tightens and pinches my joint space. When I loosen it, I get better mobility in the joint and normal walking movement. If the tendons and ligaments are tight, I end up compensating in my walking movements.