The symptoms of ankle pain in the elderly: 1. may be caused by soft tissue injury or gout. 2. may be caused by rheumatoid disease or rheumatic disease, when rheumatoid arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis is produced, it will lead to painful symptoms in the ankle joint. 3. may be caused by osteoarthritis of the ankle joint, due to the stimulation of the ankle joint by prolonged exercise in the elderly. In particular, it leads to osteophytes and osteoarthritis in the ankle joint, which will inevitably lead to pain in the ankle. Therefore, if the pain in the ankle of the elderly is not relieved within a short period of time after bed rest, weightlessness of the affected limb, and symptomatic treatment with topical drugs, you must go to a regular hospital in time to improve the rheumatism and rheumatoid factor examination, blood uric acid examination, and X-ray and magnetic resonance examination of the ankle area, so as to choose a reasonable treatment method after clarifying the cause, so that the symptoms of the pain in the ankle of the elderly can be relieved in time and effectively, After the cause is clearly identified, a reasonable treatment can be chosen so that the symptoms of ankle pain can be relieved timely and effectively.