delayed ankle pain?

Today in kickboxing, we were doing some 'frog hops' and the sort during our warm-up. At some stage I felt a sharp pain in my left ankle, on the outer side - though I don't *think* I rolled it, so to speak. I limped around for the next few seconds, but from then on, it was fine. I didn't even think about it for the next 90 minutes of class.

I did over 100 kicks with my right leg (meaning my left injured foot supported my whole body and pivoted on the ball of my foot as this occurred)

Not an ounce of pain. I even did extra stuff after class.


Then, about two hours later, or more? A pain set in. I would characterise it as quite severe. It started off dull and escalated. I can't put weight on my foot or rotate it much. I iced it. that seemed to make it worse? It actually ached a lot when I wasn't even moving it.

However, once slightly warmed up, it seems to improve a bit.


Could this be a sprain? A torn ligament? What sort of problem could have such a delay? I was training on it HARD for over an hour after it occurred.

This really sucks for me as I will miss work tomorrow and desperately need the money, plus I may have a physio bill to pay if things are bad.....


Any help is greatly appreciated,

regards,
Liam



Edit: I've had some aspirin as well as elevated my ankle. I have ceased using ice. Also. My ankle becomes walk-on-able with the help of some paracetemol. It seems effective in dealing with the pain.

Hi Liam

It would be impossible to know what you did based on your description and I don't think you will successfully improve your description as so much happened in the session. Yes you could have an ankle sprain but due to the high impact nature of your sport you could have done something else. Given the long delay in onset of the pain my guess is that you did something to one of the soft tissues in your foot. Often we can keep going as with all the adrenalin during the session we are hyped up and suppress our pain response. In fact we are able to unconsciously suppress pain with severe injuries (battle ground injury phenomenon) to an incredible extent - so you can't rule out doing something more severe.

However being unable to WB on the foot due to pain and given the amount of pain you had I think you really need to get it properly checked out. You could potentially do a lot of damage if you have something like a fracture.

BTW the icing probably didn't make things worse - probably the pain just got REALLY bad at that point so more coincidence - good thing you did ice it anyway.

I am not in Oz so I don't know the current fees you pay but as I recall organising an Xray (which you may need just to rule out anything like a stress fracture) costs nothing and so getting it properly diagnosed shouldn't cost you that much.

And hey...you only get one body in this life.

It seems to me that your case was not unusual.The body actually reported the problem by the first sharp pain in your lateral ankle. your reaction to this might have made u to shake the spot which could have delivered some analgesic effect plus the fact that the combatic sporting activities could have mobilised increased level of adrenalin in your body as rightly mentioned by Gcoe.This could mask your pain for the period the game last. hence the subreport of the extent of damage.The presentation does not exornorate ankle sprain neither does it rule out a stress fracture.Gcoe advice is golden at this point.A plain x ray of that part would be essential towards proper diagnosis on your way to solution.The way and how the ice was applied speaks a volume of what u get.Yelufem.

Thank-you so much for your replies. I woke up the following day, and the pain was only 30% of what it was the night before. The day after, it felt back to normal. I do not understand how this could possibly happen, and I have an injury which seemed as bad as it was, simply 'clear up' within 48 hours.....

Good to know that u are now out of pain.
Remember in 2011 not to give what u will not accept.yelufem.