Did 12 and torn ligament

[Singlein2020]

Poor dd has just got back from week long school skiing trip. She got knocked over on her first day and hurt. They took her to hospital on 2nd day as ankle swollen and bruised and it is a torn ligament. She spent her week sitting in a cafe watching the others. Poor thing as she saved so hard for it and it was her first foreign trip away without us. She got v homesick mainly due to feeling lonely and not being able to do any activities. Her teachers tried to get her to attempt skiing on the last day but too sore to get ski boot on.
She is still in alot of pain and it hurts to weight bear. I don't know whether to get her checked out again? I tried to get her a go appt yesterday but there is nothing until mid week.

I'd take her to A&E to get it x-rayed if it hasn't been done already.

They x-rayed it out there so nothing broken. The teachers said they were told she had to keep moving and put her foot flat in the ground so she had to try alot of walking in Italy with ice poles for support.
She was awake in the night with the pain and had to get painkillers. She is asking for more now.

Shouldn't she be in plaster? OH tore his ligaments both sides of the same ankle playing sport, and was in plaster for 6 weeks, I think, with a LOT of physio after. He was in his twenties and now 30 years later, it still causes him problems.
Your wee girl needs more treatment than she's currently getting, I'd say. I can't believe it's not splinted! She's still growing so surely support and physio is needed.

I would take her back to A&E just to get her checked out in the U.K. It sometimes happens that a break is misdiagnosed as a sprain (personal experience). She will more than likely need some sort of support like a tubigrip or even a walking boot on it to help with the healing.

Shouldn't she be in plaster?

Even a lot of breaks nowadays don't get plastered.
Agree she might need a walking boot or some kind of support though.

Hi folks. Took her to minor injuries
She is now strapped up with crutches. They were quite shocked that she didn't get even a tubi grip in Italy and also that she didn't rest it properly. ( She walked 4 miles a day on it - checked her fit bit)

She is to do gentle walking for next 2 weeks. She is gutted to miss her sports here but quite enjoying doing a dying swan about it...

Ah good, I'm glad she's got support for it now. Hope she's feeling better soon.