Thursday 7 October 2010

Chronic recurring ankle sprains


Dr Tom Scott, a chiropractor from Prestatyn, North Wales, has spent many years developing his own healing techniques with a combination of applied kinesiology, chiropractic and cold laser.

Here is one of his case studies so typical of sports injuries.

A young male football player with a history of chronic ankle sprains. He was told that the ligaments have stretched and surgery was the only option. As this patient had previously been under chiropractic care with me and heard that I now had a cold laser he asked if there was any hope of improvement from this approach.

Examination showed pain and tenderness around the lateral ankle especially inferior and anterior to the lateral malleolus, dorsi flexion and eversion was restricted. Past experience working with Australian Rules football I knew that often recurring eversion sprains of the ankle results in a chronic weakness of the tibialis anterior leading to or allowing an anterior-medial displacement of the talus bone. Testing the muscles indeed showed a weakness of tibialis anterior. This required a correction of the position of the talus bone. Strengthening of the tibialis anterior with the laser applied to the origin and insertion resulted in a slight improvement. This was followed by applying the laser to the belly of the muscle along it’s whole length along the lateral shin as it was tender and tight. Retesting produced full strengthening of muscle. Finally the laser was then applied around the joint itself for bio-stimulation of the structures of the ankle.

The patient returns for chiropractic care monthly as a maintenance programme but he is back in sport, feeling more stable and with no recurrence of his ankle sprain.

Dr Tom Scott has written several papers on correcting chronic joint conditions using AK and LLLT. These papers are available to members of UKITL.

3 comments:

  1. The patient returns for chiropractic care monthly as a maintenance programme but he is back in sport, feeling more stable and with no recurrence of his ankle sprain.

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