Chipped ankle bone?!


Question:

Chipped ankle bone?

hello i chipped a piece of bone on my ankle from playing football and i was wondering how long would it take to heal with a slinter on.


Answers:

Make sure you get an MRI and stay off of it!!! Sometimes they do not heal and you need surgery. I just had surgery for a torn tendon, several bone spurs(they occur when a bone is trying to heal itself from a trauma) and a chipped bone on the posterior ankle bone. Unforturnately with my injury, the dr kept saying it was sprained so she told me to stay off it and sent me to therapy. Well a couple months after that it still was not better so I went back, just sprained...blah blah. Finally, after a year and a half they approved me to see (as I put it a real dr) an orthopedic, not just an urgent care dr. He found it right away, but it was too late and it did not heal so off to surgey :(




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