64-Year-Old With Acute Posterior Ankle Pain

64-Year-Old With Acute Posterior Ankle Pain

A 64-year-old woman with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, osteoarthritis, and obesity presents to urgent care with acute right posterior ankle pain after stumbling on a curb earlier that day. She says she felt a sudden sharp pain in the back of her ankle and experienced immediate difficulty walking and climbing stairs. She reports 10 days of mild posterior ankle discomfort before this event, which she treated with ice, an elastic …

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Heel and Ankle Pain in an Adult After a Jump from a Second-Floor Window

Heel and Ankle Pain in an Adult After a Jump from a Second-Floor Window

A 38-year-old man presents to an urgent care center and reports pain in his right heel and ankle that he describes as severe enough that he cannot walk on the foot. He says that the pain began the previous evening when he landed on the group after jumping out of a second-floor window on a dare. He has some minimal paresthesia, but he has no fever, vomiting, head trauma, head or neck pain, or chest …

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