During basketball season, one of the more common injuries seen is the ankle sprain. It generally happens when a player lands on another athlete’s foot and rolls their ankle. Ankle sprains can happen when the athlete goes to plant their foot and take off another direction.
CAUSES: The ankle is made up of 7 bones; the calcaneous, talus, navicular, cuboid, and cuneiform I, II, and III. Your two lower leg bones, the tibia (your shin bone) and fibula come done and connect with your foot bones creating the ankle. If you feel the bump on the inside of your ankle, you are touching the base of the fibula known as the medial malleolus. And just beneath that bump is a “fan like” group of ligaments known as the deltoid ligament. The deltoid is most commonly injured with an eversion type ankle sprain. |