How to distinguish between a sprained foot and a fracture

Both foot sprains and fractures can have local pain, swelling and limited movement, but fractures and foot sprains are different in many ways, and can be distinguished by the following aspects: 1. look, there is often a deformity at the fracture, when you can see the foot lose its normal configuration, you can initially determine that there is a fracture. 2. feel, when the fracture can have a sense of bone rubbing, that is, the feeling of two bones rubbing against each other at the broken end. 3. If you touch the fracture end with your hand, you will feel the feeling of two bones rubbing against each other. 3.Listen, use the stethoscope to auscultate the foot injury, if you hear the sound of two bones rubbing against each other when the foot is moving, that is, the bone rubbing sound, then you can diagnose the foot fracture. 4.Perform the related imaging examination, you can perform X-ray and CT examination to further confirm the foot fracture.