Athletes' ankle injuries: diagnosis and management.

摘要: Ankle injuries are common in the general and athletic populations. These constitute 21% of all sports-related injuries. The wide spectrum ankle includes ligamentous injuries, soft-tissue osseous impingement, osteochondral lesions talus, tendon fractures. Occult (eg, fractures lateral process anterior calcaneus, base fifth metatarsal, os trigonum, stress fractures) may be missed on initial physical examination, patients with such often present to a sports clinic persistent pain around ankle. Because increasing participation sporting events, health care professionals involved athletes at levels must have thorough understanding anatomy, pathophysiology, management In this review, we describe pertinent pathology, diagnosis, treatment