Expat - ankle injury advice required again!

[mears]

Ankle is still giving me jip. I know it is only 2 months since I hurt it but it has been getting sorer recently. Is that the norm IYE?

I am trying to stretch it but when I do it causes sharp pain. There is a kind of clicking sensation going on within my ankle. When I anm walking about at work it feels swollen but doesn't look it partcularly. I can feel the outside part of my ankle bone rub against my shoe when it feels swollen. Also had intense internal itch when it feels like that.

Have been back to GP who thinks I should have orthopaedic referral but that could take a year. Am trying to access it through occupational health. Physio sid to go back through GP if I have any other problem with it. I just had one dose of ultrasound and was advised to stretch it and stand on one leg etc.

Is this just par for the course? Should it not be starting to feel better by now?

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mears, sounds to me like you need more physio; it is pretty normal for soft tissue injuries to take this long to heal, though.

As for the orthopaedic referral, it will NOT take a year. I can state this categorically

hi Tissy. I think you are right about more physio. It is so blinkin' annoying that it is so sore. I thought it would slowly improve but I didn't expect it to get worse again. I am going to occupational health next week so hopefully won't have to wait too long to see physio. Could probably have it on site

Sounds like an MRI scan may be in order.

Hi Bubble - haven't seen you for a while.

Will see what occ health doc says next week.

It really sounds like ligament damage to me, but only an MRI could see this clearly. Treatment would depend on the amount of damage, assuming it's there. I stretched mine badly in the left ankle, which only showed up some months later as I'd broken the foot and ankle in a fall and when that showed up on Xray I was just put in a plaster. It was only after the bones had healed and I still had pain that an MRI showed up the ligament damage.

Then it was dynaband and wobbleboard city and picking up pencils with my toes for ages.

As mine was not longer swelling, I also tried heat on it and it helped the pain along a lot more than cold, as some soft tissues have poor circulation.

Get a Dynaband, start w/the beginner one and move up.

I wound up investing in a wobbleboard, but I've had a lot of injuries, unfortunately.

Thanks Expat