My friend twisted her ankle pretty badly. A day after the accident she has bruising in multiple places on her ankle and has severe pain especially when flexing or turning her foot a certain way. When she injured her ankle she reported that she heard a loud pop in her ankle. She has also now developed pitting edema in the injured ankle
Hi there. Looks like your friend has had a ligament injury to the ankle. The pop sound she's heard is suggestive of the same. For my patients, if the swelling was awful to begin with, along with inability to bear weight on the affected lower limb, I would firstly put a plaster cast for 4 weeks for the ligaments to heal and then remove it and start them on ankle exercises. If her pain and edema/ swelling are not so bad then compression/cr\u00eape bandaging should be sufficient. Rest, elevation of the involved leg and ice pack application are the additional supportive measures. So for your friend what I would advise is that if she has had this injury few weeks ago she should take rest for 3-5 days, avoid putting weight on the lower limb involved, minimum ambulation only to the bathroom if need be, and ice pack application locally. If it does not subside within a week she should do x-rays and get herself checked.