Ankle sprain

Mr. Mushtaq, people, especially people sort of doing sport, have ankle injuries and they may present to the emergency department, have an x-ray and they're told that there's no fractures there, but they continue to have pain. What other injuries can you have with the ankle? Yes, so that's a common scenario and what I would say is that if your ankle is still symptomatic after one week, then you should have it investigated. And the sort of things that you are likely to have sustained is actually ligament injuries especially on the outside of the ankle, we call them the lateral ligaments or you may have chipped a bit of cartilage inside the ankle called an osteochondral defect. Both of these are quite common and both can lead to symptoms later on in life and therefore should be addressed earlier rather later. They do not show up on an x-ray and therefore an MRI scan is the investigation of choice.