Hi, no worries! I will try and give a full history.
As a child i dislocated bits of me regularly - ankles, thumbs and elbows were favourites.
When i say 'dislocate' i mean that the joints would pop, look a slightly different shape, have restricted movement and HURT. I don't mean they would flop about like a broken toy.
Trips to docs and A&E led to xrays and disinterested shrugs.
Trips to an osteopath led to instant across-the-room diagnosis, a manipulation, another 'pop' and the pain would magically disappear.
When i reached adulthood, i developed a small tumour of the pituitry gland which is benign, but pumps out extra prolactin. Prolactin is the hormone that softens ligaments and tendons just before childbirth. So all mine are permanently soft and stretchy which means that my joints are unstable because of that too. Sudden sharp movements (tripping, falling, lunging to catch a falling object) will often be outside the scope of my joint-muscle-tendon capacity, and the joint shifts out of true, rather than pulling a muscle. So i get a dislocated ankle rather than a sprained ankle.
The more often, and longer a joint is 'out' the easier it is for it to go 'out' the next time.
My left ankle must have gone about 30x , the right maybe 20x
Nowadays, with the left one, i can reset it myself - i just flick and waggle it around, preferably in a swimming pool, and feel it crunch back into place.
However, as i have aged (nearly 50 now) my joints are a bit stiffer, which has made the injuries less common.
So the overall effect is still unstable, but not as silly-unstable as before.
I have to be very careful walking on uneven surfaces. Always wear DMs laced tight around the ankles, for walking the dog. Have dis-connected my sacro-illiac joint sitting down awkwardly into a chair. Elbows go bad if i carry heavy shoppng. That kind of thing. My neck went once with an emergency stop, while my head was turned. The impact with the head rest is what did it.
I have also learned to shun ANY sport. What is the point, when it is going to cost £40 a session at the chiropractor to repair the damage?
Interestingly, i have found the joint/tendon pain is MUCH reduced on low carb. I think that my body finds carbs very inflammatory.