What to do if your ankle is sprained and there is effusion

If you have an ankle sprain and fluid accumulation, you should first go to a regular hospital for examination to clearly diagnose its severity. You should also rest in bed to avoid an increase in fluid accumulation due to activity. If the amount of fluid accumulation is too much, you should go to the hospital for fluid drainage treatment. Moreover, too much fluid accumulation can cause bone marrow edema and other diseases such as rheumatism, infection, etc. Therefore, we should try to reduce activities as much as possible. When the joints form a dynamic balance with the effusion, the swelling of our ankles will gradually subside. The editor has written below the specific methods to reduce ankle effusion.

A small amount of fluid accumulation in the ankle joint will heal slowly with rest and immobilization. For cartilage damage, cartilage protectors can be injected into the ankle joint. Now the main thing is rest and immobilization, do not play basketball, put less weight on the ankle joint, and exercise again after you have recovered.

Traumatic synovitis is mostly caused by acute trauma and chronic injury. When the knee joint is subjected to excessive exercise in a single action for a long time, the synovial tissue becomes congested and edematous. Acute trauma includes: knee sprain, meniscus injury, collateral ligament or cruciate ligament injury, joint effusion or sometimes blood accumulation, which manifests as acute traumatic synovitis of the knee. Sometimes it can also be caused by simple synovial injury of the knee joint. If the trauma is mild, or long-term chronic knee strain, coupled with the invasion of wind, cold, and dampness, the knee joint will gradually swell and become dysfunctional, forming chronic knee joint inflammation.