Sore ankle help?

Ankle sprain/tendinitis help?

• please help me out here!! my first sprain was about 1 year ago, it was around a grade 2 sprain maybe a little more, i was on crutches for a week then off and walking with a limp then getting better and better then after around 3 months and 1 month of therapy i felt 100 percent, no soreness,tightness,gained full mobility, no pain, could cut 100 percent, jump run, sprint and everything(this was in fall) spring came by and it was club season i felt great and mid way through the season i didn't twist it but i hurt it by shuffling backwards in a game (have no idea how it happened even had a brace on) ok so could barely walked and missed that game i expected it to be very mild cuz i didnt twist it but it didnt get even close to 100 percent. by the way i heard/felt a POP in the when i hurt it shuffling sideways. long story short i played throught the pain for the rest of the season and tweaked my ankle almost every game, scored a pretty sweet goal somehow the last game top corner from outside the box. ok so the fall season is coming up and i was feeling preety good but not 100 percent mid way through the season i sprain it again pretty easily because it was weak. played though the pain the athletic trainer pretty much called me a pussy because my ankle was so unstable that i got hit in the calf and my ankle shook a little and i was limping again barely being able to walk and got steeped on and was limping again k. so i played the rest of the season missing one game and tweaked it almost every practice. k now it has been 3 months after and i can walk w/o pain but its like achy and sore, i've been to PT and ankle seem to get better but then when we tryed to do allitle more it flares up/ swells and we cant do anything else, my doc sent me another month it hasnt started yet but idk what else there is to do in PT and it was decent last week but now its swollen again. question what else is there to do??? a walking boot???? surgery???:( how well will the ankle heal after surgery???? any experience with it??? athroscopy surgery???? one more thing, i got an mri and the doc said i had fluid on the inside outside and back/achilles of ankle and that there were no ruptured ligaments but there were previouly damaged ligaments so no surgery will be required but why isnt it healing then??? please help!1

• Answer:

  it sounds like your going back into soccer too soon. i know its annoying not being able to participate like everyone else but you have to let your body heal... dont go straight into running also try ultrasound and light therapy on your schilles tendon at PT... that was the one thing that helped me. trust your doc and phys therapist when you go back take it slow. walking, light interval jogging, short jogs, then into full on sprinting AFTER you have no pain before after or during those strengtheners. even after you heal your ankle will be weak you need to gradually build up the strength... hope that helps