16 Jun 🥴 Does your child experience recurrent ankle sprains?😖Is your child complaining of ankle pain that comes and goes, months after they twisted their ankle?

Ankle injuries are extremely common and can happen to anyone. Unfortunately, ankle injuries are often ignored and under treated. 😳 Children who often trip and twist their ankles during the day and not report it to an adult until waking up in the middle of the night complaining of a sore and swollen ankle or when they are limping the next day on a swollen and painful ankle.

In major ankle sprains that include complete rupture of the ankle ligaments and broken off bits of ankle bone, the pain 😖is immediate and excruciating, which will stop you from even standing on your ankle, forcing you to seek immediate medical assistance.

It is the minor ankle sprains that are low grade strains of the ankle ligaments and the partial tears of the ankle ligaments without any bony fractures that often get ignored. 😳 In minor ankle sprains, many people will struggle to put weight on their ankles but are still able to hobble 👣 and limp on their leg. Minor ankle sprains happen very frequently and for some people repeatedly.

Once ankle ligaments are weak from repeated minor sprains, the risk of a complete rupture of the ankle ligaments increases significantly.😳 Proper treatment and management of ankle sprains will prevent future major ankle sprains by promoting ligamentous repair and strengthening 💪 the ankle ligaments.

So if your child is complaining of recurrent ankle pain, don’t wait until a major ankle sprain occurs before you have your child assessed, reach out to My Favourite Physio 📱on (02) 9790 4233 or DM us @myfavouritephysio to speak to one of our Expert Paediatric Physiotherapists today! Find out how we can help your child get back to peak performance today! 🚀🚀🚀

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