It is true, however, that the healing of a hairline fracture could look quite different from recovery from a fully broken bone. An examination and imaging testing can give you a proper diagnosis so you can begin the process of recovering.
Injuries can be tricky and become even trickier as you get older. Contact us today to schedule an appointment. Nickson and the team at Next Step Orthopedics are here to get you started on the road to recovery. PRP gets a lot of attention for its use in treating facial aging. But guess what? No pain, no gain, right? Not necessarily. Playing through knee pain could cause a lot of problems. Then, finding relief becomes your number one priority. Fortunately, there are lots of solutions for foot pain.
Ankle injuries are common, especially among athletes. Compression : wrap the affected area tightly, but not so tight that blood flow is restricted. Elevation : raise the injured area above the level of your heart, which will increase blood flow and promote faster healing.
Unlike strains and sprains, a fracture is when a bone is cracked or broken. Symptoms of a fracture include sudden, severe and immediate pain, swelling, and bruising, and the inability to bear weight or move the injured part of your body. The symptoms of a fractured bone may not always be obvious. Although severe breaks may be clear, fractures can be hard to determine, and it is best to seek medical attention immediately.
A diagnosis is typically made after a physical exam and imaging, such as an x-ray, MRI, or ultrasound. The majority of fractures are treated with rest and immobilization and, in some cases, surgery. If there is any question about the severity of a sprain, strain or fracture, make an appointment with your primary care doctor or an orthopedist immediately.
Speaking to a physician and getting the appropriate diagnosis and treatment is important to healing properly. Strains A strain is a twisting, stretching or pulling of a muscle or its attachment. Sprains Similar to a strain, a sprain is basically a ligament or tendon that has been stretched out, or even torn. Fractures Unlike strains and sprains, a fracture is when a bone is cracked or broken. Call Do you always need an x-ray of that?
I mean, how does one proceed? Let's say they have swelling, they have pain, does that need to be evaluated by a physician? And how would they know? Harold: That's a good question. So there is a set of rules called the Ottawa Ankle Rules, that came out of Canada, where they looked at a lot of patients who had an ankle sprain and they tried to determine which ones were at risk for a fracture and which ones were at risk just for a ligament injury.
And so there are some rules you can follow. One is if you can walk on your ankle right after the injury, that's a good sign. Harold: Bear weight, exactly. The other is we look for tenderness on either side of the ankle on the bony prominences, both on the inside and the outside of the ankle, as well as if anyone has tenderness on the outside or the lateral part of their foot.
Harold: Then you should come in and get an x-ray, just to make sure that you don't have a fracture with the injury. Miller: So you could go to an urgent care clinic, you could go to your primary care physician or even a sports medicine physician?
Harold: Yeah, all three would be able to handle that with an x-ray and let you know if it's a fracture or just a sprain.
Miller: So sometimes, there's this difficulty in distinguishing whether it's a fracture or whether it's actually just a sprain?
Miller: Okay. Other joints that are concerning for either fracture or strain? I think of ankle, most commonly, and then knee is one where. Harold: I'll see some people who fall on their wrist and there's concern whether it's a fracture, or whether it's a sprain or a strain. And that doesn't have a set of rules to guide x-ray so, typically I'd say if it's really swollen and if you have limited movement, those are the times that I would get an x-ray.
Miller: So if you're lacking function in that hand because of swelling and pain, that needs to be checked out, especially if it goes on any longer than maybe a day.
Or if it just hurts incredibly, it needs to be checked out. So let's talk about strains. You've mentioned hamstring. Miller: And is that the most common that you're familiar with or that you deal with on a day-to-day basis? Harold: Because I treat a lot of the younger athletes, I see that probably most commonly. Harold: The main treatment there is to keep from overstressing it when it's still injured.
So usually, we start with some gentle stretching, usually some physical therapy. Avoid any kind of sprinting or any kind of activity that really stresses it until it slowly heals with time, and that can take up to a month. Miller: And so a person with either a sprain or strain would end up maybe going to a physical therapist if it was a non-operative injury?
Harold: So most injuries require physical therapy, some time off from the activity that really bothers it, but very few ever go on to require surgery. Miller: Emily, you mentioned something earlier, talking about nonsteroidals. Could you talk about that and what a nonsteroidal is? Harold: Yeah, a nonsteroidal is a drug that helps with inflammation.
If you get them over the counter, brand names like ibuprofen, Aleve, or naproxen, Advil, those are medicines that people take to help with inflammation. Now, I think it's worth noting that it hasn't been shown to heal anything quicker, it's more of a pain alleviator. Miller: Should they go to the drug store and pick up ibuprofen or Naprosyn, common nonsteroidals that are available without a prescription?
Or do you have a certain way that you prescribe them or tell them how to use them so that they don't overuse those types of medicines? Because they do have side effects. Harold: Yeah.
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