ankle pain on the inside of the ankle?

i was playing field hockey yesterday and fell weird and the ankle went inwards and when i got up i had sharp pains in my inside of the ankle near the boney bit.Now when i try to straighten my foot it hurts and also when i walk. What could it be should i see my sports specialist?

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Ankle pain is most often due to an ankle sprain, which is an injury that causes a stretch or tear of one or more ligaments in the ankle joint. Ankle ligaments are probably the most sprained ligament in the body. Close to 26,000 people sprain their ankles every day. Although most ankle sprains occur on the outside part of the ankle, they can occur on the inside as well. An ankle twist is the most common sports injury to lead to ankle pain. In addition to ankle sprains and other injuries, ankle pain may also be caused by arthritis, gout, pseudogout and infection.

How does ankle pain develop?
The most common type of ankle sprain is an inversion injury, turning the ankle inward, injuring or tearing the ligaments on the lateral side of the ankle, usually the anterior talofibular and the tibiofibular ligaments. The inside of the ankle is held together by a group of ligaments called the deltoid ligament. This ligament is injured from turning the foot outward, as can happen when falling down stairs or mis-stepping. Once an ankle is sprained, the injury may take a few weeks to many months to fully heal. The injured ankle often remains a little weaker and less stable than the uninjured one.

What are the symptoms of ankle pain?
Symptoms of pain from a sprained ankle include mild aching to sudden pain, swelling, discoloration, inflammation, inability to move the ankle properly and pain even when no weight is put on the ankle. In mild cases, there may be a propensity for the ankle to continually turn inward.

Conventional medical treatments may help relieve the symptoms of ankle pain, but they do not address the root of the problem. By strengthening structural weaknesses in the body, as natural medicine treatments like Prolotherapy do, ankle pain may be alleviated permanently.

Discover why we believe that natural medicine treatments are the best way to treat ankle pain.

Treatment of Ankle Pain:


The Response of Modern Medicine
Everyone is familiar with the typical modern medical treatment routine for an ankle sprain, the most common cause of ankle pain: ice, elevation, wrapping with a bandage or wearing a brace and rest, i.e., staying off the ankle. This is also known as RICE treatment (Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation), and is a common practice for most sports-related injuries. The problem with this treatment approach is that it decreases inflammation (inflammation heals!) at a time when the injured area needs it most, resulting, unfortunately, in decreased healing. In other words, it does nothing to repair the injured or weakened ligaments involved and, thus, does not alleviate the chronic pain that people with this condition experience. And while exercises designed to strengthen the muscles that support the ankle may be beneficial, they rarely resolve the chronic pain.

Hand-in-hand with the RICE treatment approach is another standard practice of modern medicine: injecting steroids or prescribing anti-inflammatory medications. However, in the long run, these treatments do more damage than good. Although cortisone shots and anti-inflammatory drugs have been shown to produce short-term pain benefit, both result in long-term loss of function and even more chronic pain by actually inhibiting the healing process of soft tissues and accelerating cartilage degeneration. Plus, long-term use of these drugs can lead to other sources of chronic pain, allergies and leaky gut syndrome.

When all else fails, patients who experience chronic ankle pain may be referred to a surgeon. Unfortunately, surgery often makes the problem worse. Surgeons will use x-ray technology as a diagnostic tool, which does not always properly diagnose the pain source.

The Natural Medicine Approach to Ankle Pain
A better approach is to strengthen the ligaments supporting the lateral ankle, the area most commonly sprained, with Prolotherapy. Chronic ankle sprains have been effectively eliminated with Prolotherapy treatments. If the sprain is the result of turning the ankle outward rather than inward, Prolotherapy treatments are applied to the deltoid ligament.

Chronic pain is most commonly due to cartilage deterioration, tendon weakness or ligament weakness or injury, as is the case with chronic ankle pain. The safest and most effective natural medicine treatment for repairing tendon, ligament and cartilage damage is Prolotherapy. In simple terms, Prolotherapy stimulates the body to repair painful areas. It does so by inducing a mild inflammatory reaction in the weakened ligaments and cartilage. Since the body heals by inflammation, Prolotherapy stimulates healing.

Prolotherapy offers the most curative results in treating chronic pain. It effectively eliminates pain because it attacks the source: the fibro-osseous junction, an area rich in sensory nerves. What’s more, the tissue strengthening and pain relief stimulated by Prolotherapy is permanent!

c ur docter, you may have sprained it or mabye even screwed up the alighnment of those bones.
definately no doubt about it may be torn
If you rolled your ankle inwards, yet have pain on the inside of the ankle, you may have made some hard contact between the tip of your tibia (at the medial malleolus) and the talus (the bone that just sits below it). Most INWARD ankle sprains result in pain on the OUTSIDE of the ankle.a sprain of the anterior talo-fibular liagments. Yet, if you have pain on the inside, you may have either gotten a nice little bone bruise, or perhaps there was some degree of you spraining your ankle OUTWARD (we sometimes don't recall the exact mechanisms of injury). If this is the case, you might have sprained the deltoid ligament which is on the inside of the ankle (medial side). What is unfortunate about most deltoid ligament sprains is that the ligament is so strong, that when it is sprained, it often alvulses (fractures) off the tip of the medial malleolus. This fracture often does not appear on x-rays for 6 weeks after the injury. Let's hope this is not the case.

I imagine either A: you have a nice little bone bruise.you will start to feel better over the next week, but may have pain for 4-8 weeks. or B: You sprained the deltoid ligament which may cause persistent pain that does not get better over the next couple weeks (or may worsen). If this is the case, see an orthopedist.

Both conditions should initially be treated with rest, compression (such as an ankle support), elevation, and ice (cold paks for 5-10 minutes) up to every 2-4 hours for the first 2-3 days.
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