Most ankle sprains are inversion ankle sprains, meaning that you roll onto the outside of your ankle, as opposed to the inside. This causes damage to the 3 main ligaments located at the lateral (outside) ankle, whose purpose is to provide stability and support (you have these stabilising ligaments on the inside of your ankle too). They are called your anterior talofibular ligament, posterior talofibular ligament and calcaneofibular ligament.
Damage to these ligaments presents as swelling, pain and tenderness on the outside of your ankle, with occasional bruising.
We treat a lot of ingrown toenails here at the Auckland Ingrown Toenail Clinic. So, with approximately 10% or more of the adult population harbouring a fungal nail infection, it’s not uncommon that we see many ingrown toenails where a stubborn nail fungus has also infiltrated the nail. So how can you tell, what can […]
Shockwave therapy is a gold standard treatment used to help achieve the best clinical outcomes for musculoskeletal injuries and pain – and we’re very proud to now offer it to our patients here at Perform Podiatry.
While many of the cases we see here at the Auckland Ingrown Toenail Clinic are fairly standard, there are a few that vary greatly from the ‘norm’, and could have resulted devastating consequences if they had been left untreated under the hopes that the ingrown nail would “go away on its own”, something many people […]
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| SUN | Closed |
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