Ankle Injuries
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Does every twisted ankle need to be imaged?
Does a negative ankle x-ray mean there isn't any need for ortho followup?
Does every ankle fracture need to be placed in a splint and made non-weight bearing?
Today, we'll be discussing the high yield topics related to ankle injuries...as well as some clinical pearls, so you don't get burned!
At the end, we'll be staring a question from one of our listeners, regarding thee DVT.
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| 0:00.0 | Does every |
| 0:05.0 | twisted ankle need to be imaged? |
| 0:06.0 | Does every ankle fracture need to be placed in a splint |
| 0:10.0 | and made non-weight bearing? |
| 0:11.0 | Today on the med geeks podcast, |
| 0:13.4 | we're discussing the high-yield topics |
| 0:15.6 | from ankle injuries, as well as some clinical pearls |
| 0:18.7 | so you don't get burned. |
| 0:20.6 | Let's do it. Hey, what's up everybody. It's Eric again with another episode of the Med Geek's |
| 0:38.2 | podcast. Thank you so much for joining. Today we are going to be talking |
| 0:42.0 | about ankle injuries. These are extremely common, so common that it's really easy to go into autopilot mode. |
| 0:49.0 | Today I thought it'd be really helpful to go over the basics of the history, the physical exam, and some clinical |
| 0:54.2 | purls to make sure you don't miss some of the tricky complications from ankle |
| 0:58.2 | sprains and fractures. Later in the show we're going to be going over a |
| 1:01.3 | question sent in from Ask Med Geeks regarding the treatment of |
| 1:04.2 | dvities. But for now let's get started on the ankle. If I may, I'm going to go ahead and drop a clinical |
| 1:10.5 | purl right here at the start of the show and that is if you rely upon an |
| 1:14.4 | x-ray of the ankle and or foot to solely identify every clinically significant injury to the ankle or |
| 1:21.6 | foot you're going to miss things. |
| 1:23.2 | In other words, your history and physical exam are super important here. |
| 1:26.4 | I speak from experience on this. |
| 1:28.7 | So let's start with history. |
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