
Foot & Ankle Surgeon - Dr Steven Kent (reshare)
Sports Medicine Project
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Do You Think Ankle Sprains Are More Common Than What People Think?
Ankle sprains are much more prevalent than we probably give it credit for. They're a tricky one because like I said before, some of them are symptomatic in some hurt. And so if you talk about things like x-rays, x-rays are only going to pick them up maybe 30 to 50% of the time. That's what the literature would say. So x-ray is going to miss a lot. The important thing is to think, well, patient's not getting better from an ankle spray and after a few weeks, like five, six weeks, there's something else going on. It's just ignore the patient's say, ah, it's just
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