Inside ankle pain
by Diane
I had an extreme injury to my ankle in Sep of 2007, I had surgery to repair ligament damage on the outside of my ankle in Jan 2008. I got pregnant and had no pain until I started running again. I now have extreme pain on the inside of my ankle. It mainly feels as though I am coming down on a knife. The pain is on top of the round boney part on the inside of my ankle. If you place your finger there it feels as though the pain is inbetween the bone and the large tendon running down the top of your foot. When pushed on or touched the pain is really really bad. I have been given 4 weeks of physical therapy and the pain actually seems worse after my sessions. They use ultrasound and the heat feels really good, just later in the day and evening I get a throbbing pain that won't go away. any help would be greatly appreciated since my ortho doc simply said to pt more and the pain should get better. Hi Diane, The only help I can give you is that if you have gone through 4 weeks of physical therapy and have not experienced any real relief than your doctor needs to start thinking "outside the box". In a similar situation I would order an MRI to see if anything more severe is going on. Unfortunately an x-ray alone many times does not tell the whole story. Press your doctor to further investigate the problem. Marc Mitnick DPM
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