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Ankle Arthritis
Ankle arthritis is very common for elderly people but though this is common it should not left untreated because this can gets worse overtime. Worst case of ankle arthritis is an excruciating pain, which affects the way a person walks.
Severe ankle arthritis can affect the mobility of an elder person thus affecting the quality of life but with proper diagnosis and treatment, a person can still live a normal and productive life.
Arthritis is a general term for number of conditions that damages the joints. The usual parts of the body that arthritis can affect are:
Ankle
Foot
Shoulders
Neck
Hands
Hips
Knees
Back
It is not common to hear that a person has ankle arthritis because the most common form of arthritis is knees and back. Accordingly almost half of adults which are in their sixties and seventies were found to have foot or ankle arthritis but they are not aware of it because sometime do not exhibit any symptoms.
The foot has twenty-six bones and more than thirty joints. It has ligaments, which control all these all together. All the tendons, ligaments and the muscles are working together with other joints in your feet in order for you to walk around. However, when ankle arthritis strikes you, pain and swelling can affect your mobility, as it will limit your ability to walk.
Symptoms of ankle arthritis
The general symptoms of ankle arthritis may include:
Swelling
Inflammation
Redness
Pain
Soreness
Diagnosis of Ankle Arthritis
Diagnosis of ankle arthritis is done in different methods. Some of these methods may include:
Physical examination
X-rays to see the presence of deformity if any
Bone scan
CT-scan
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Treatment of Ankle arthritis
The main goal of treatment of ankle arthritis is to give relief to the pain the patient feels and to address the possibility of deformity in the foot and ankle.
