What Are The Symptoms Of Ankle Arthritis?
What Are The Symptoms Of Ankle Arthritis?
Patients with ankle arthritis have varying degrees of symptoms, which often correlate with the extent of the arthritic degeneration. Typically the symptoms involve pain, swelling and stiffness. Arthritic pain may flare after periods of inactivity (such as getting out of bed in the morning, or after a standing up after a sitting for a while). As the joint loosen up with activity, the pain may decrease as the day progresses. The pain may be deep and intense to superficial and achy.
Movement of an arthritic ankle joint can result in a clicking or grinding sensation, medically known as crepitus. In more advanced cases, the ankle joint develops bone spurs (aka arthritic bone spurs) – which is the body’s mechanism for blocking the painful arthritic motion.