How to rehabilitate ankle bone fracture

The patient has a fractured ankle bone and the fracture is not serious, and there are many methods of rehabilitation that can be carried out in the middle and late stages of the fracture for proper rehabilitation. The ankle area can be treated with hot compresses, and the patient is instructed to frequently soak the feet in hot water or add orthopedic washings that activate blood circulation, reduce swelling and pain to the water for fumigation and immersion. Physiotherapy such as acupuncture, moxibustion, acupuncture point herbal iontophoresis, etc. or external application of blood-vitalizing and pain-relieving cream or oral intake of tendon and blood-relieving tablets can also be used. Under the guidance of the rehabilitation doctor, early functional exercise of the ankle joint can be carried out to prevent adhesions of muscles, ligaments and joint capsule in the ankle area or atrophy of local muscles.