May 2010 - Clarksville Family Magazine

is a severe ankle sprain, you most
likely will do the RICE approach
first to manage the pain and
swelling. After that, you may be
on crutches to take weight off the
foot. You may even be put in a
brace or boot to limit motion and
allow healing. Because it hurts,
you most likely won’t move it and
you can forget about walking
normally.
The body is healing itself
all this time though. Because
minimal to no stress is being
placed on the injured ligaments,
scar tissue is laying down kind
of like cooked spaghetti in a pot.
Scar tissue lies down along the
lines of stress — when there is
no stress and the joint isn’t being
moved, scar tissue can become
very disorganized. As healing
continues and the joint is moved
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and strengthened, the scar tissue
that lies down starts to look
more and more like uncooked
spaghetti in a box. This is what
we want it to look like. We want it
to be strong, moveable, and in a
direction consistent with how the
joint is going to be moved.
But what about that underlying
scar? Did the patient start
rehabilitating the injury at a
key time to form a nice, strong
scar that will be able to handle
the next big stress? Or are we
looking at a John Candy injury?
As a physical therapist, these
are tough patients to treat.
They get in a cycle of reinjury
and have an increasing lack of
response to treatment. These
patients tell me that they have
a “bad ankle” or have had
tendinitis “for years” and that
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they’ve just learned to live with
it. Most of them continue their
normal activities and simply deal
with the pain OR they stop the
irritating activity forever (so sad
when it is something they love
doing). Many of them have tried
multiple types of treatment with
no success and they have simply
given up.
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being able to help my patients.
I know that there are patients
that simply won’t get better
no matter what I do. But some
of my favorite patients to treat
are the ones who’ve tried other
treatments without success and
are looking to me as a last resort.
I wish I could see everyone
within days of their injury, but
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