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"JR Martinez has vowed that his ankle injury will not prevent him from competing in the Dancing with the Stars final. The US military veteran twisted his ankle while rehearsing with professional partner Karina Smirnoff, which he said weakened his performance on Monday&amp;#039;s (November 14) edition of Dancing with the Stars. Martinez, who underwent a series of medical tests earlier this week, revealed that doctors have given him a very promising prognosis. &amp;quot;The ankle is better. I had an X-ray taken this morning and it came back negative. That&amp;#039;s good news. It kind of swelled up just a little bit last night. I iced it, kept it elevated. Nothing major, like a tear or broken,&amp;quot; Martinez told Access Hollywood. He added: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m relieved [at] the fact that America voted us through and gave Karina a chance to be in the finals, and to show them we deserve to be there.&amp;quot; Martinez also promised his fans that he&amp;#039;s taking every precaution to ensure that he&amp;#039;s in top form for next week&amp;#039;s finals. The star explained: &amp;quot;I have [a few] days to strategically rest it and really pay attention to it, but still work on the routine. I&amp;#039;m going to be doing that in rehearsal, going to be taking breaks here or there, 20-30 minutes, icing it from time to time. &amp;quot;[I am] just really trying to take care of it and nourish it, because I don&amp;#039;t want to re-injure it.&amp;quot; During an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live following Tuesday&amp;#039;s Dancing with the Stars results show, Martinez said that he is very impressed by the effort that his fellow finalists Rob Kardashian and Ricki Lake have put into their performances each week. Dancing with the Stars continues Monday at 8/7c on ABC. &amp;gt; Read Digital Spy&amp;#039;s full Dancing with the Stars headlines Watch JR Martinez discuss his ankle injury below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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