Is it painful to have a plate removed from a triple ankle fracture?

Patients with triple ankle fracture to remove the plate, usually no significant pain, only mild pain, the details are as follows, triple ankle fracture usually requires plate screw internal fixation, about a year after surgery, the fracture has completely healed, the plate has lost its fixed role, can be removed by a second surgery. Before removal, anesthesia is usually administered. Clinically, general anesthesia and combined lumbar and rigid anesthesia are usually chosen, and the patient is painless after anesthesia, so the procedure will be relatively smooth. After the surgery, the anesthesia will disappear in a few hours or so, and the patient will have mild pain. The clinician will give the patient analgesic pumps and pain medications that can suppress the pain symptoms, so there will also be mild pain and no serious pain, and functional exercises can also be performed to make the surgical site recover as soon as possible.