Ankle pain is usually caused by trauma, gouty arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or bone tumors. Depending on the situation, heat compresses, medication or chemotherapy may be used to treat the condition. 1. Trauma: External force can lead to soft tissue injury in the ankle joint, causing ankle pain. Hot compresses can be applied locally to accelerate local blood circulation and reduce the clinical symptoms of pain. 2. Gouty arthritis: Gout is often caused by high levels of uric acid in the body, and the arthritis it triggers tends to recur, which can also cause ankle pain. You can take colchicine, febuxostat and other drugs to quickly inhibit inflammation stimulation and lower uric acid treatment, relieve the symptoms of ankle pain. 3. Rheumatoid arthritis: these patients will have certain problems with blood circulation, muscle nutrition is seriously deficient, which makes it aging, resulting in ankle pain. Anti-rheumatic drugs such as methotrexate and salazosulfapyridine can be taken to control the progress of rheumatoid arthritis and prevent further aggravation of ankle pain. 4. Skeletal tumor: ankle pain should be considered to be caused by skeletal tumor, which is easy to invade ankle bones and cause local pain. You should go to oncology department or orthopedics department of regular hospital for examination and treatment in time, have surgery as soon as possible, and then cooperate with radiotherapy to kill the cancer cells. If you have ankle pain, you should go to the hospital in time, and give targeted treatment after clarifying the cause of the pain, and you should not use medicines indiscriminately, so as not to aggravate the condition.