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Ankle ligament Injuries
Ankle ligament injuries
When you've rolled your ankle, you must treat it.
Or, it will happen over and over again.
When you roll your ankle, it depends on the patient's condition but most people can treat it without surgery treatment.
If it is not treated, it can lead to chronic condition. So if you roll your ankle, it is better to get early diagnosed and treated quickly.
Ankle ligament injuries can be divided into acute and chronic, and lateral ligament injuries.
Ankle ligament injuries
What are the Acute lateral ankle ligament injuries?
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Features
This is known as an acute sprain of the ankle joint, and it is the most common disease when people roll their ankles.
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Classification
It can be classified as medial and lateral ligament, and distal tibiofibular syndesmosis injuries.
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Causes
The most common cases are lateral ligament injuries and the foot is rolled inward while walking.
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Symptoms
The main symptoms are swelling and painful of the lateral part of ankle in addition to external wound. It is divided into 1, 2, 3 degrees, and conservative treatment is required according to each condition.
Ankle ligament injuries
What are the Chronic lateral ankle ligament injuries?
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Features
When this disease becomes chronic, there is a situation in which the ankle is continuously rolled inward and becomes unstable and staggering. The patient is afraid of being rolled the ankle repeatedly.
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Causes
If the patient is not treated for acute lateral ligament injury, it can become chronic.
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Symptoms
In chronic cases, the pain is not the main symptom but the repeated rolled ankle is.
Ankle ligament injuries
How to treat it?
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Non-surgical treatment
how to
Primarily, both acute and chronic non-surgical treatment should be performed. In addition, you can reduce symptoms by simply putting lateral valgus wedges into the shoes so that the feet are not rolled, widening or lowering the heels, and reducing symptoms by using a brace or taping during exercise. Patients can improve the disease by performing muscle strengthening exercises with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, physical therapy, and also rehabilitation programs should be carried out for at least 6 weeks.
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Prolotherapy
how to
If there is no response with the above conservative treatments, good results can be expected with prolotherapy, which is aimed at strengthening ligaments.
In general, the treatment is performed 3 to 5 times every 2 weeks.
The pain intensifies 3 to 5 days after the prolotherapy but this is a stage of recovery, so you do not have to worry about that.