Common Injuries
Some of the most common sports injuries involve the feet and ankles. Sprained ankles and injured Achilles tendons top the list, along with plantar fasciitis and stress fractures. But these are just a few of the sports injuries an athlete can experience and that we treat here at the Foot & Ankle Center. Sports-related foot and ankle injuries we frequently see include:
- Sprains
- Strains
- Chronic tendonitis
- Acute trauma involving stress fractures
- Avulsion fractures
- Dislocations
- Open and closed fractures
- Growing pains
- Excessive pronation
- Rigid supination
- Untreated limb length discrepancy
- Poor stretching and strengthening exercises