Thanks guys for your suggestions. This helps tremendously. I'm a little concerned about the torque, but that's just probably fear based as it was incredible torque from the look pedals that got me in this mess in the first place. However, my PT places lots of torque on my ankle right now in therapy, so maybe I shouldn't worry so much.

Knotted, so with BMX pedals you don't clip in? Do you use athletic shoes, or perhaps some sort of a stiffer shoe?