Chapter 32, Problem 27A

Summary Introduction

To analyze:

The scenario when a person enters the emergency room with an ankle injury. The structures of the patient’s ankle needs to be examined to determine the proper treatment.

Introduction:

Ankle injuries can be categorized in many ways as a broken bone, stretched ligament or damaged tendon. Depending upon the examined problem then the precise treatment of that ankle problem in made.

Explanation of Solution

When a person enters the emergency room with an ankle injury usually the first question that a doctor asks if about how the injury happened. Afterward, the doctor analyses and examines the amount of injury in the ankle. Checking the condition that whether the injury is severe or not then the doctor might recommend getting an MRI or CT scan of the broken ankle.

Ankle injuries can be categorized in many ways as a broken bone, stretched ligament or damaged tendon. A break in the bones is a fracture, the stretched ligaments cause sprain and the damaged muscles or tendons come under strain.

Conclusion

The structures like bone, ligament or tendon of the patient’s ankle need to be examined before the treatment which can be done by MRI or CT scan.