Hi Guys,

First post on here, what a useful site

I'm after a little bit of info about an injury I have. I recently (around 4 weeks ago) went over on my ankle whilst out running the hills and it went with a loud pop. My foot was flat or slightly dorsiflexed at the time and the painful area was to the rear of the malleolus and directly below it (CFL?). Later that day it swelled up a fair bit but I was still able to weightbear and continued my run albeit a little gently. I did the usual RICE which worked fine and around a week later I was able to train again. I've since run a 10 mile race and got a personal best which didn't seem to aggravate the injury a great deal. So I assumed all was well.

However, I went over on it again at work yesterday and have now injured the front ligament (ATFL?) and reinjured the rear again. It swelled up quite a lot again so I went to the minor injuries unit to get it checked and they found an old avulsion fracture on the base of the lateral malleolus where the bone is clearly separated and only held in place by soft tissue.

My question is this, they told me it was old and didn't think it could've been the first sprain but was probably months or years old. Thing is, I don't ever remember injuring that ankle in the past so I can't work out what's going on.

Any ideas?

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