This cankle story appears to have legs. As we re-reported a few weeks ago, Gold's Gym is building a summer marketing campaign
around the
term, which the Urban Dictionary refers to as "the area in affected female legs where the calf meets the foot in an abrupt, nontapering terminus." (A spokeswoman for the American
Podiatric Medical Association, however, tells the
Journal's Amy Chozick that the word is not a medical term.)
Robert Schwartz, a plastic surgeon near Dallas, says he
does 10 to 12 liposuction treatments on the area a year. "I see women all the time ... doing all the right things, and yet these places won't go away." Paula Hankin, who claims she has
"calves like a softball coach," has invested in a pair of Fit Flops, $49 flip-flops that are said to reduce cankles by tightening the lower leg muscles.
And it turns out
that a personal trainer at a Manhattan gym has designed a homemade remedy that involves applying Preparation H to the ankle and then wrapping it in an Ace bandage overnight to help reduce extra water.
A spokesman for Wyeth, which makes Preparation H, says the product is designed to shrink hemorrhoidal tissue and the company doesn't recommend its use on other areas. No word from Ace
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