ankle pain

Ankle pain and it’s traumatic, non-traumatic causes

Any kind of discomfort or pain in the ankle joint is referred to as ankle pain. In could be due to injury during fall, or internal pathologies like gout and arthritis. One of the most common cause is sports injury.

Whatever may be the cause, since it bears the weight of the whole body over it while standing and walking, it makes our walking painful and discomfort.

Causes of ankle pain

Broadly we can study the causes of ankle pain under two subheading, one is a traumatic cause and another is non-traumatic.

Non-traumatic cause

Most often it is non-traumatic cause for ankle pain. It can be:

  1. Insertional achilles tendonitis: Causes, treatment & physiotherapy.
  2. Achilles Tendonitis pain: Symptoms & physiotherapy

Traumatic cause

Traumatic injury, such as falling on the ankle, sports injury, ankle-twisting when landing on rock or stair climbing are a few common reasons.

These injuries could result in:

  1. Ankle sprain.
  2. Ankle strain.
  3. Pott’s fracture,
  4. Medial or lateral malleolus fracture.