What causes ankle pain?

If your ankle is bent and you experience soreness, you should pay attention to it. The most common causes of this symptom are arthritis and rheumatism. We know that rheumatism is a relatively common disease. If it is serious, it often leads to joint deformation, causing the patient to experience fever, pain, and swelling in the affected area. At this time, you should go to the hospital for corresponding examinations and regular treatment.

Common symptoms of rheumatism include:

1. Fever is a common symptom of rheumatism

It can be low fever, moderate fever, or high fever, and is often manifested as irregular fever, generally without chills, and antibiotics are ineffective. At the same time, the erythrocyte sedimentation rate is fast. Diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, adult Still's disease, acute neutrophilic febrile dermatosis, and panniculitis may all have fever as the first symptom.

2. Pain is the main symptom of rheumatism

It is also an important cause of functional impairment. Among the pains of rheumatic diseases, pain originating from joints and their attached structures is the most common, but pain in the limbs and trunk can also be seen in visceral and nervous system diseases. Joint pain, neck and shoulder pain, low back pain, and heel pain are often the main manifestations of rheumatism, sometimes accompanied by joint swelling. Rheumatoid arthritis often presents with symmetrical joint swelling and pain, especially in the finger joints and wrist joints; ankylosing spondylitis presents with low back pain, which worsens during rest and may be accompanied by heel pain and red eyes; polymyalgia rheumatica presents with neck and shoulder pain, limb girdle muscle pain, and muscle weakness.

3. Skin and mucous membrane symptoms:

Systemic lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis/polymyositis, Behcet's disease, panniculitis, and Sjögren's syndrome may have rash, photosensitivity, oral ulcers, vulvar ulcers, eye symptoms, reticular cyanosis, skin ulcers, etc.

4. Raynaud's sign:

The fingertips turn white when exposed to cold or when the person is emotionally excited, and then turn purple or red, or are accompanied by numbness and pain at the fingertips. In severe cases, skin ulcers may occur. This can be seen in scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis, mixed connective tissue disease, and systemic lupus erythematosus.

5. Muscles may have muscle pain

Muscle weakness, elevated muscle enzymes, and electromyographic findings of myogenic damage, such as dermatomyositis/polymyositis, mixed connective tissue disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc.

6. System damage:

Some rheumatic diseases, especially autoimmune connective tissue diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis, may cause damage to multiple organs, such as carditis (pericarditis, myocarditis, endocarditis), kidney damage (proteinuria, hematuria, edema, hypertension, renal failure), blood system (leukopenia, erythropenia, thrombocytopenia, blood volume, etc.), respiratory system (interstitial pneumonia, pulmonary hypertension, pleural effusion), digestive system (liver damage, jaundice), etc.

7. Often have autoantibodies:

Antinuclear antibodies, anti-ds-DNA antibodies, anti-ENA antibodies, antiplatelet antibodies, anti-cardiolipin antibodies, rheumatoid factor, etc.