Skating prince Yusheng Yu fell while challenging Axel's Four-Week Jump (4A) at the Beijing Winter Olympics, ending his third Winter Olympics in fourth place. However, Yusei became the first player in the Winter Olympics to try the 4A jump, and after the game he was photographed with ice on his right ankle. He admitted that when he played, he didn't feel anything on his right foot. Although Yu Yu did not make it to the winter Olympic podium, the resilience and determination he showed were shocking.
In recent years, Yusei has suffered repeated injuries to her right ankle. Prior to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Yusei Yusho was recuperating for three months after injuring a ligament in his right ankle during training. However, he successfully defended the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics figure skating men's singles title. However, the pain in Yusei's right ankle did not disappear, and he still suffered from the pain of his right ankle. The pain in his right ankle was like a time bomb on yusheng's knot.
In figure skating competitions, the athlete's skates plus the thickness of the ice knife make the foot higher from the ground, and if you are not careful, you will sprain the ankle joint; in addition, if the athlete falls in a circle in the air, if the posture of the foot landing is not correct, it is easy to cause damage to the muscles and ligaments of the ankle joint, and even fractures.
When an ankle is injured, we have some of the following imaging methods. X-ray, which is economical and fast, is the most commonly used test in orthopedics and can initially screen for ankle fractures. CT examination, the radiation dose will be more than X-ray, but the resolution of the ankle image is higher than that of X-ray, and it can also reconstruct the image from multiple levels and angles such as transverse fracture, sagittal, and coronal position, and there will be no overlap between the bones. If an X-ray reveals a suspicious fracture but does not confirm the diagnosis, another CT scan is usually done as a booster. MRI is a non-invasive, painless, radiation-free test with a high resolution on soft tissues that can clearly show blood vessels, muscles, ligaments, nerves, etc. X-rays and CT scans can confirm fractures, but the diagnosis of ligament, muscle, and nerve damage is not as good as MRI.
After a sprained ankle, the activity should be stopped immediately and ice packed with ice packs. Ice compresses can cause capillaries to constrict at the injured site, delay blood flow, reduce vascular permeability, reduce bleeding, and reduce local soft tissue swelling, pain and spasms. However, the ice compress time should not be too long, no more than 20 minutes at a time, to avoid frostbite. During the ice compress, do not rub with topical drugs that activate blood, which will aggravate the swelling and pain.