Could be worse.... About a year a half go, here is the doctor putting my ankle back into place after I spent 12 hours in the mountains, wondering if it was a compound or just a VERY bad break (foot was almost facing the other directions) dam snowmobiles....

 

Originally Posted by HeadsUp4Life

Could be worse.... About a year a half go, here is the doctor putting my ankle back into place after I spent 12 hours in the mountains, wondering if it was a compound or just a VERY bad break (foot was almost facing the other directions) dam snowmobiles....]

What is a compound? Isn't a compound fracture just a fracture with the bone sticking out of the skin?

well, the Vatican has just informed me that i need to call our family doc in the morning and get them to book me into the fracture clinic instead of going to emerg.

When the vatican speaks, people listen. Yes dear.

 

Originally Posted by Milo

A bad enough sprain can be worse than breaking the fucker. I've done both, and the sprain had me laid up for a week, while I was walking on the break in three days.

This is true. Mind you I have never broken my ankle, but I destroy every ligament in my ankle while playing soccer and the doctor told me I should have broken it, I would have been better off. I was black from my foot to my knee and couldn't walk properly for over a month. Good luck tomorrow!

google the "ottowa ankle rules". if any of those apply to you, you should go get an xray. otherwise, its likely just sprained and treatment is just symptomatic. GLGL.

 

Originally Posted by SCTrojans

What is a compound? Isn't a compound fracture just a fracture with the bone sticking out of the skin?

lol @ "just...sticking out of the skin".

that's about as bad as it gets lol.

You'll probably wish is was a clean break because honestly it's actually easier to rehab than a really bad sprain. I couldn't run right or play sports for about 6 months to a year after I had a grade 3 sprain of my right ankle.

The doc actually said that bad sprains tend to cause more damage because of the tendon damage, which can't repair like a broken bone can.

 

Originally Posted by Prestonluv

Keep spraining it imo. Eventually u will lose all your ligaaments and it wont hurt much anymore.

My ankle ligaments are so shot that i regulary trip over things like crosswalks and three point lines.

Good news is it does not hurt and get right back up. Gives peeps a good laugh as well

Done and done. I've had testing done on it and basically my ankle is held by muscle and bone. Turning it over causes a quick bit of pain but that is about it now.

Had a buddy totally fuck his leg up when playing roller hockey. He went one way and his leg tried to go another. For some reason he shouted "it had to be me" at the top of his lungs only to make me and the rest of my friends playing bust out laughing. We were like wtf do u mean it had to be you. Anyways we thought he was "ok" and just sprained it so he limped with one of the shitty sticks under his pit to the house which was like 1/2 a mile away from the court we play on. He went to class and walked around campus all day the next day. I asked how his Ankle was that night and he showed me only to be surprised as I was at how fucking black and blue it was. He finally went to the doctor the following day to find out he needed surgery because walking on it caused the little ball in his foot to like come apart from the ankle or some shit like that. He had to have some screws and plates put in.

Don't think he will be playing puck anytime soon but he is finally about 100%.

side note- I have sprained and broke BOTH ankles. Both suck just depends how severe the sprain is or how bad the break/fracture is. I had boots and casts for each and ended up taking one off my senior year of HS so I could play the full soccer season (awful idea) as my ankle ALWAYS pops when I move.

GL man

 

Originally Posted by saxman

thanks Socal - iced it and elevated and wrapped now.

I'll be sitting in emerg or a fracture clinic for 6 fucken hours to get this looked at.

Nah...When you go in tell them you are having sharp chest pains and shortness of breath and maybe some pain/tingling in your left arm. After they run an EKG on you just say, "oh, since I am here do you mind having a look at my ankle?" You will be in and out in under an hour, EZ game.

Jeebus nw25TH! I would have rather just broke it. How did you do that?

My ankle still has another 8 months or so of healing. I walked on it for 3 weeks before the army finally diagnosed it properly. Xray didn't show anything. Mri showed something but not conclusive. Ct scan showed the break. Worst part right now (3 months of healing already) is I feel fine but I have no range of motion and won't for some time. It sucks cause I'm up in the barracks having to listen to my company graduate right now.

yeah a severe high ankle sprain is terrible...my friend in high school did that when we were hooping...he took a funny step and sprained his ankle severely and tore ligaments...it was really bizarre...i saw the whole thing happen he was dribbling the ball up the court at half speed and just stepped on his foot kind of sideways and just went down.

i sprained my ankle once but thankfully my ligaments were left intact

canadian health care, everybody!

lol so sax, I guess you could say you've got the blues? hey-ohhh!

tussin, ez game