Medical Mystery: Solved

Health & Science
One day, a serious athlete couldn’t walk straight. Doctors were stumped.


by Sandra G. Boodman February 19

“What are you doing ?” Laura Hsiung’s friends asked as she slowly loped across a Maryland handball court, her ankle off-kilter so that she was walking on the outside of her left foot.

Hsiung recalls wondering the same thing. One minute she was walking normally, and then all of a sudden, she wasn’t.

“I couldn’t figure it out,” Hsiung said. “I hadn’t rolled my ankle. But my left foot just would not function normally.”