What Are the Most Common Types of Foot Injury?

Foot injury

Foot injury

Foot injury disease name

Foot injury

Classification of foot injury diseases

Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Overview of Foot Injury Diseases

Causes of foot injuries:

In some more intense sports, especially those that require running and jumping, it is easy to cause foot injuries due to carelessness. The light ones are only skin abrasions, and the severe ones may have fractures or joint dislocations.

1. Injury in competition During the competition, physical collision, sprinting or bouncing due to intense competition can easily strain or break foot muscles. Because when the body is suddenly changed, as the calf is twisted rapidly, it can cause ankle ligament strain and bone damage.

2. The most common ankle injury caused by indirect force injury is the anterior fibula ligament injury caused by kicking the ball with the outside of the foot. Especially in ball games, when comparing feet with fellow or opponent athletes, ligament damage, subcutaneous hematoma, muscle rupture or fracture, traumatic periostitis, toe contusion or ankle dislocation are more likely to occur.

3. Injury on sports grounds When the ground is uneven or slippery, it is easy for athletes to kick their feet and fall and cause foot injuries.

4. Chronic strain, especially in football, is more common. Such as "football ankle" (X-ray shows ankle bone hyperplasia), it is the ankle joint strain caused by long-term use of ankle in football.

Foot injury diagnostic test

In addition to the medical history and general clinical examination, plain X-ray films are required, and the normal position is oblique and oblique, and the lateral position is added if necessary to determine the location and extent of the injury.

Foot injury treatment plan

1. Plaster splint is fixed for 3 to 4 weeks after reduction of metatarsophalangeal joint dislocation. Patients with old dislocations need to be resected open and fixed with Kirschner wire.

2. Talus dislocation and peripheral dislocation

The calf was fixed with plaster for 4 to 6 weeks after closed reduction. The patients who failed to close the reduction underwent open reduction, and the calf was fixed with plaster after operation. No weight bearing within 3 months.

3. Fracture of the calcaneus

The plaster was fixed for 4 to 6 weeks after closed reduction. The open reduction was performed for those who failed to close and reset. For severe comminuted fractures, joint fusion surgery can be considered.

4. Dislocation of sacroiliac joint

Closed reduction was performed first, and those with satisfactory reduction were fixed with calf plaster. Those with poor reposition had additional continuous traction on the toes on the calf plaster; those who had not yet achieved satisfactory reduction were treated with open reduction and steel needle internal fixation. For older patients, if symptoms severely affect weight bearing, joint fusion is feasible.