Ankle

saz_1989

I did something to my left ankle playing football. It hurts when I walk and when I rotate my foot to the left. It throbs all the time and I look like a penguin when I try to walk up stairs! :biggrin:

I poked it a bit and it hurts on the ankle, between the outside of the ankle where the bone is and the front (where the kind of hollow is). My explanation is pretty crap so I could take a pic if necessary. Oh, and it's been hurting since the Saturday before last. It got worse after I played football last Saturday, then was really really bad after hockey on Tuesday.

Anyway, my question is: is this a ligament or bone or tendon that's damaged? Or is it a sprain? How do I make the pain stop? I've got sports matches over the weekend.

I know TSR isn't a doctor's surgery, but it has clever medics :smile:

I can't go to hospital just now, I have too much work :redface:

Reply 1

frank01277779

1

ok, obvious answer: rest it for a while...

Reply 2

Juno

20

You could try ibuprofen! But I doubt it will be better by the weekend

Reply 3

xemilyx

2

go to the doctors. you dont want to mess with the ankles especially seeing as your quite active :smile:

Reply 4

Apricot Fairy

16

You can't be that far from your student health service. Ignore it all you want, take ibuprofen, put ice on it, do whatever....but if you have done yourself some damage, you risk making it worse if you don't have it seen to.

Reply 5

IzzTheGreat

10

Seriously, go and get it sorted. Something similar happened to me when I was about 9 and I've had a dodgy ankle since then because I overdid it and never got it seen to.

Reply 6

rachelrainbow32

2

Yeah, i did a similar thing and after about a yr when i went to the doctors it turned out that i had sprained it and i had to have loads a physio on it and evrythin.

Reply 7

Apricot Fairy

16

L.J

We just go to addenbrookes when we are broken. *Goes to find bandage and painkillers*.

What's addenbrookes?

Obviously you're the only one who can tell how much it hurts, but I don't want you to ignore it and make it worse if you really have broken something or pulled a muscle! Sometimes when you fracture something it's fairly minor and you can still do most things, but you're just not very comfortable. But if it starts to heal wrongly, you could be causing yourself more problems. I know someone who fractured a bone in her foot and ignored it, saying it was nothing. By the time she finally got it checked out it had started to heal crookedly, and she had to have some kind of corrective treatment. Not nice!

Reply 8

qwerty_st/n

11

rest it, put ice on it and apply a bit of pressure as has been suggested a bandage should do the job, and importantly keep it elevated - to prevent/reduce swelling

ordinary paracetamol is just as good as using brufen if you havent got any of that

but if you can, i would suggest going and get it seen to by someone

Reply 9

EllieK

1

Get it seen to asap just incase, I did something similar to mine and actually fractured it but walked round for 6 months as I was too busy to go to the docs. The damage I did was so extensive I nearly had to have my ankle fused at 14. Meanwhile ice elevation and tubigrip bandages and rest it!

Reply 10

lovelee-jublee

12

Addenbrookes is a hospital, susiemakemeblue!

My mate done his ankle in the other day playing footy! He went to the hospital and they said it's 'strained' (whatever the difference is between straining and spraining!) and he's supposed to rest it as much as possible for 6 weeks. They think it's just soft tissue damage.

Reply 11

thefish_uk

14

lil_lee

Addenbrookes is a hospital, susiemakemeblue!

My mate done his ankle in the other day playing footy! He went to the hospital and they said it's 'strained' (whatever the difference is between straining and spraining!) and he's supposed to rest it as much as possible for 6 weeks. They think it's just soft tissue damage.

Sprain: pulling a ligament
Strain: pulling a muscle or tendon

Reply 12

Gem

14

susiemakemeblue

What's addenbrookes?

It's a hospital....my brother was born there :proud:

Reply 13

Brummie Yoshi

i know exactly what you've done! You have strained your calneofibular ligament (the ligament that joins the outside of your anle to your heel bone) Know why i know? I tore mine 2 weeks ago! (in 2 places for the record...) its not badly damaged if you can walk on it, i needed an ambulance when i did mine. but don't play on it until its recoverd or you will do what i did or worse, rupture it, which has been known to happen. Aply the RICE proncipal

Rest
Ice
Compress
Elevate

josh

Ankle

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