I rolled my ankle and apparently have a sprain with an avulsion fracture at the talofibular ligament. Given NSAIDS, iced it, walked with crutches and an air cast.
After only 4 days when I take the cast off, I am able to put weight on and walk on it with little discomfort at all. I haven’t been to physio but I feel I can walk on it regularily while continuing nsaid and icing.
Any ideas if I should do this?
I’m not running or doing lateral movements.
I did this (avulsion fracture) in September of 2008, although I also broke my fifth metatarsal. I broke my right ankle (lateral fibula, distal) three weeks ago. I am off crutches, but I’m still in an air cast. I was at the ortho clinic today and I was told to keep the air cast on for at least ten more days. My ankle feels good, but if I turn it in, it still hurts. The doc encouraged me to take the cast off at home and do some plantar and dorsi flexion movements. He said the fracture is still there, so I don’t want to rush this. My advice to you therefore is to not be impatient. Let the healing work and see a doc.
Depends on the size of the Wagstaff (fibular avulsion) fracture. Large pieces I typically ORIF with a screw across, but most are small and are basically treated similar to an ATF sprain with ice for the first 72 hours, some gentle compression, stability as needed and ROM exercises as soon as tolerated.
But the obvious question: why have you not asked your treating physician this instead of an internet forum?
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=2593704
Pffftt.
I did a HIM, 2 Ironmans, a bunch of sprint and olympics + a hundred or 8 miles of run training on one.
ditto what rrroof said - go talk to a sports minded pediotrist/orthopod type guy.
Granted yours is a bit different than mine, but if I ever have do something of that nature again I’ll be seeing my doc ASAP instead of down the road.
no appt til next week.
Listening to, is not same being advised.