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[Yasmeen]

If you have stories about amazingly speedy recoveries from ankle injuries, post up!

Here's mine (it's a WIP): I rolled my right ankle bouldering yesterday, a week before heading to Spain. Amazingly, I was able to crush despite what the X-ray photos below might suggest.




The red in the photos points out where the doc told me my ligament pulled off a small chip of bone. I'm currently RICEing, taking Naproxen, and staying off of it.

And now a question for the doctors in the house (even though I'll ask the orthopedic surgeon tomorrow):

If I rolled onto the outside of my ankle, why did the ligament on the inside of my ankle pull off the chip of bone? Wouldn't it seem like the outside sustained more trauma?

[Andrew]

I shattered my ankle last year fighting off Iranian terrorists. It healed in three hours. You should be fine.

[Yasmeen]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks, cous!

[kato]

Here's my WAG: When you hit the ground, muscles on both sides engaged. As the ankle rolled to the outside, the outside tendon was pulling tangent to the bone. But since your foot was collapsed to the inside, the inside tendon was pulling away from the bone and pulled a chip off.

[climb2core]

Ok, my 2 cents...

I don't see how an inversion ankle sprain can create tensile forces in the medial (inside) of the ankle. I could see a bony contusion an possibly the compressive forces of bone on bone causing a medial bone chip, but not because the ligament pulled it off. The deltoid ligament on the inside of the ankle is a broad fan shaped ligament and would be unlikely to pull off a bony fragment in one spot.

But, there is lots I don't know... so who knows. I am curious and will do some reading to see if I can find a source that says otherwise. Do you know how to tape an ankle?

[Yasmeen]

Thanks, guys. The ortho actually suggested both of those scenarios as having been possible.

C2C, if you've got some beta, I'll take it!

[climb2core]

http://www.jbjs.boneandjoint.org.uk/con ... 2.full.pdf

I am still thinking it was compressive forces...

Beta for taping? Pretty easy. Just google it. If you need more specifics, let me know I and I would be happy to help.

[Yasmeen]

Hell, I thought you had some super secret refined and perfected over the years ankle taping beta that you were hiding from Google's crawlers.

[climb2core]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1KQbMam ... re=related


Gaad.... I had to go through 15 videos before I found one I would recommend...

[tutugirl]

I hit the outside and broke the medial malleolus (snapped off) I am sure is the pressure of the hit in one side pushes into the other side...anyway after two screws I am back to normal...I can't even tell there is anything wrong at all except for a bit of less flexibility which is more than the average person. I also did mine two days before going on vacation...weird how things like that workout