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Got Hit In Ankle With The Baseball, Swelling, Painful. What Should Be My Next Step?

Hi, I just finished a baseball game about 4 hours ago. I got hit in the ankle with the baseball on second base. It was a hit from the batter not a throw. It swelled and bruised immediately, I also couldn t put any weight on it. We iced it right away and the swelling went down. It was throbbing and very painful at the time. Once I made it home it seem to have gotten better, the swelling was almost gone and the bruising didn t get any worse but the throbbing is still there and most of all I have a very hard time putting weight on it. It throbs more and more the more I put weight on it. Also. Tried putting a tensor bandage on it and at first, only 30 seconds to a minute it felt good, but then it worsened and felt like daggers in my ankle. Is this something that I should just RICE, or should I get it checked out?
Tue, 18 Jun 2013
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hi,
you should het it checked out because the pain doesnt subsides and there is swelling also at the begining you better go and take an x-ray ankle more details and treatment at present to get releif from pain only painkillers are sufficient though its an symptomatic treatment to rule out fracture or any ligament or temdon injury you have to go for xray.
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Got Hit In Ankle With The Baseball, Swelling, Painful. What Should Be My Next Step?

hi, you should het it checked out because the pain doesnt subsides and there is swelling also at the begining you better go and take an x-ray ankle more details and treatment at present to get releif from pain only painkillers are sufficient though its an symptomatic treatment to rule out fracture or any ligament or temdon injury you have to go for xray.