
#351 Live! Foot and Ankle Pain with Dr. Joan Ritter
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Is It a Sprain?
The squeeze test is generally where you can the tibia, the fibula together at the mid calf. It's to test for high ankle sprains. If if that's negative, that makes it much less likely. The patient comes in with ankle pain, and then the any one of the following: mulular tenderness to palpation, mid foot tenderness to mammogram or to bear weight at the time of injury. And these have pretty good sensitivity and specificity, but they were initially studied in an emergency room setting. I don't think mat needs an x ray, because it sounds like a weo as pericl atyo soo as he doesn't he's
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