What might be causing my ankle pain in my?
I just started playing ice hockey about a month ago. When I skate I’m feeling a lot of pain on the side of my ankle. It hurts directly behind the ankle bone, where it is sort of soft (not the back of the ankle where the tendon is.) Somebody told me it might my Achilles tendon, but I thought that was more the back of the leg and ankle, not the side. It especially hurts from a lot of backwards skating, hard cuts or stopping. It doesn’t hurt much after I stop skating then rest and ice it. I don’t think resting alone will help. I played for a few month last season and it started to bother me, but now I haven’t skated all summer and it started bother me during our first practice. It starts hurting after 5 minutes of skating.
Somebody also suggested that I tape my ankle. Would that help? I’ve heard of KT-tape (kinesiology tape) and thought about giving that a try. Has anybody used KT tape? What do you think of it?
Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful. I’m sure it’s not serious now, but I want to avoid it becoming an issue.
Best answer:
Answer by Kyle
its probably a ligament. ice skating is kinda bad for your ankles. you should give it a little rest, and keep it moving around.
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Simba, it sounds to be a tendonitis of the peroneals. These are the muscles that move your foot out to the side. I realize that skates are often extremely tight and this might be a simple reason for this problem. Make sure that they fit correctly and if you have not outgrown this pair. The next simple thing to do is to pad this area to see if this takes the pain away. The reason that my thinking goes this way is that it should also hurt you when you are doing things outside of skating if it were entirely muscular. So for me it is either in the skates or something in your mechanics that is creating this problem. This is an exercise to strengthen the entire back section of the ankle and foot. Stand on the edge of a step with the ball of your foot on the edge. Raise up on your toes with both feet. Now take the foot that is bothering you off the step and place it behind the other foot. Now slowly lower the remaining foot down as low as it can go. Now place the injured foot back on the step in the starting position and raise yourself back up using only that foot. Repeat that cycle until you have done 15 reps. Switch feet and do a set with the injured foot. Stop at this point if there is any pain or discomfort. If there is none then do another set with each leg. No problems then continue this way until you have done 6 sets on each leg. You can stop anywhere along the line of sets if you become tired. Don’t force this as it will only make things worse. You may also get some soreness the next day. If that occurs skip that day or just go very lightly that day. The stronger that you make this area the less likely you are to have problems. If this problem continues then see a podiatrist about this. They are the foot and ankle experts.