Swollen ankle

Introduction Ankle swelling is inconvenient and can cause pain during activities. Ankle sprain can cause swelling of the ankle joint, but Chinese medicine believes that joint swelling and pain is caused by injury or exogenous wind, cold and dampness, and it is combined into disease, and the joints are used to stop the blood, and the wind and evil waters take advantage of it. The veins make the meridians occluded, the closed ones are unreasonable, the unreasonable pains, the painful pains for a long time, the pain will last for a long time, the long-term will be swollen, the swelling will be hot for a long time, this is the yin and yang imbalance, the viscera can not be born to each other The mechanism of swelling and pain. The root cause is that the muscles do not live the capillaries and the microcirculation is not smooth.

Cause

Ankle sprain can cause swelling of the ankle joint, but Chinese medicine believes that joint swelling and pain is caused by injury or exogenous wind, cold and dampness, and it is combined into disease, and the joints are used to stop the blood, and the wind and evil waters take advantage of it. The veins make the meridians occluded, the closed ones are unreasonable, the unreasonable pains, the painful pains for a long time, the pain will last for a long time, the long-term will be swollen, the swelling will be hot for a long time, this is the yin and yang imbalance, the viscera can not be born to each other The mechanism of swelling and pain. The root cause is that the muscles do not live the capillaries and the microcirculation is not smooth.

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Related inspection

Synovial fluid visual inspection of synovial fluid

Swelling of the ankle joint and ankle movement disorder. It can be painful during activities.

1. The joints are obviously swollen and hot, and they are afraid to move.

2. There may be localized pressure points around the joints, and the floating raft test is positive. When the activity increases, it increases, and the rest is relieved. For a long time, you can get a feeling of hypertrophy of the knee capsule.

3. Joint effusion examination, which can reflect the nature and severity of synovitis.

4. Joint puncture and synovial fluid examination.

Differential diagnosis

Ankle joint swelling and pain, may be caused by arthritis, gout, etc., or diseases such as heart or kidney. Athlete ankle joint disease is also known as the athlete's shackles, football squats, or ankle joints. More common in football, gymnastics, basketball, skiing, weightlifting athletes and dancers, can seriously affect normal training and competition, affecting the improvement of sports performance. Swelling of the ankle joint and ankle movement disorder.

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