Common sports injuries in ankle and foot region
Note:- It must be remembered that every speedy sport is susceptible to results into any type of neuromusculoskeletal injury.
Region
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Specification
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Cause
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Injury
(mode)
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Sport
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ANKLE and FOOT
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Inversion or evertion strain with or without fracture
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Indirect injury due to violent Inversion or evertion with ankle joint
relaxed in planter flexion
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Fall from height and repetitive overuse
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Jumpers, runners, joggers
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Stress fracture of tibia
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Indirect overuse weight bearing injuries
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Hair line fracture upper or lower end of tibia, fibula or metatarsal
bones
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Marathon runners, jumpers
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Fractures of 5th metatarsals
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Indirect overuse injury to the 5th metatarsal. Sudden twisting
of ankle in inversion.
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Weight bearing- results into- avulsion fracture of base of 5th
metatarsal
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Jones fracture
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Dancer fracture
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Runners, dancers
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Medial tibial stress syndrome
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Indirect injury due to periosteal inflammation
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Periosteum get inflamed over the medial border of distal 1/3rd
of tibia(shin-splint) due to overuse
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Anterior impingement syndrome
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Overuse syndrome due to repetitive excessive dorsiflexion
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Excessive dorsiflexion of the ankle joint results into impingement of
anterior tip dancers of tibia on the neck of talus
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Posterior impingement syndrome
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Overuse indirect injury due to repetitive planter flexion
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Posterior tubercle of oscalcis copresses the synovial or capsular
tissue against tibia due to repetitive planter flexion
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Dancers
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March fracture
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A fatigue fracture, indirect injury due to sustained standing
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Fracture occurs at the 2nd or 3rd metatarsal
bones in sustained standing
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Nurses, soldiers
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Flexor- hallucis longus tendinitis
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Indirect overuse putting extra strain on flexor hallucis longus
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Extreme repetitive planter flexion puts extra stress of dynamic
stabilization of medial foot and ankle on flexor hallucis longus
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Ballet dancers
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Injury or fracture of sesamoid bone of great toe
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Direct impact of the foot of overuse injury
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Impact of the foot on a hard surface with toes in extension or repetitive
micro trauma to the foot. The fracture may occurs when the proximal phalanx
of 2st MTP is jammed into the dorsal artricular surface of metatarsal head
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Dancers, runners
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