What sort of injuries can you get around the ankle joint?

Dr. Hatem, what sort of injuries can you do to your ankle? It comes in grades, so you can do either a minor sprain, which can happen with a simple twisted ankle, which can come with a little bit of swelling, a little bit of pain, but the patient can walk on it, or they can at least limp. So this is the first degree. You got the second degree when you have a moderate sprain where the ankle will be more swollen and sometimes the patient cannot walk on it for the first couple of days. And then you got the severe ankle sprain where you got lots of bruising around the ankle area, lots of swelling and the patient cannot walk and they sometimes happen to be in a cast. Of course, you can break your ankle and that will be diagnosed by having an x-ray and then if that ankle is broken, then you need to be in a cast for at least four to six weeks. Clinically, when patients present with an ankle injury, which ones need investigating? Usually the patient, depends on the age of the patient first. So the patient is a child or an elderly, so of we'll say above 75 usually we take an extra precaution would be more low threshold to have an investigation for them and as well as some people who are under the influence of alcohol usually we have to be extra careful so we investigate even though they don't fulfill the criteria. Other than that we usually look at certain things like the patient the patient cannot walk on his ankle or foot then we have to x-ray them and also there are certain areas where we feel that they are tender there and usually to the end of the ankle or the base of the foot on each side then we have to x-ray them.