You will need your physician’s guidance when starting functional ankle exercises. Within 1 month after surgery, you need to ice your ankle for 15 minutes after functional exercises, do not put ice directly on the skin, functional exercises for the ankle are usually 3 times a day. After 1 month after surgery, soak your ankle in hot water, first of all, make sure your surgical incision is intact, let the tissue relax and then exercise, you may have some pain when exercising, if you feel more pain when you need to stop functional exercise. 1. Write Move your ankle and foot and write each letter of the alphabet on the floor. Keep the lower leg straight and do not straighten the knee and ankle joints. The letter starts small and becomes larger as ankle function improves. 2. Ankle flexion and extension exercises Move the foot up and down as if depressing or easing the clutch on the car. Repeat 10 times. 3.Ankle lateral movement Move the foot from side to side and repeat 10 times. 4.Ankle rotation movement Rotate the foot, clockwise first and then counterclockwise, repeat 10 times. 5.Stretch the ankle joint Sit and straighten your leg, circle the foot with a towel, pull backward, pull until the muscle has a tense feeling, not pain, and then relax. Each time to maintain this tense state for 20 to 25 seconds, repeat this exercise 3 times a day. 6, toe flexion exercise Put a towel on the floor in front of you, sit yourself on a stool, put your feet on the towel, flex your toes to grab the towel under the arch, do not move your heel during the exercise, repeat 10 times.