Most injuries to the ankle are the consequences of traumatic events such as sports injuries in tennis, skiing or playing soccer. Often enough, however, a simple "overflow" of the foot. Sometimes, even the slippage, for example, from the curb to see a band to cause injury.

What is an impingement (a pinching) of the upper ankle?

This disease is also known as a soccer player's ankle (ankle footballer) refers. It prefers Athletes diagnosed with long exposure in the context of contact sports such as football.

What happens when the joint impingement on OSG (upper ankle)?

These are formed depending on the extent of impingement of the bony outgrowths on the shin, and later also at the anchor leg in the front ankle section. At these terminals Knochenvorsprüngen articular soft tissues such as mucosa, scarring and units have a capsule. The unwinding of the upper ankle (OSG) is often painful and the mobility is limited by the increasingly restricted Weichteileinklemmungen?
Often limit the pain affected athletes in sports, but more often ankle pain after the burdens as a. The joy of this sport is often destroyed.

Cartilage damage to the ankle

Cartilage damage in the ankle joint are responsible for ankle wear. The causes are very different. The mechanisms for the arthritis in the ankle joint lead are always the same. Is a non-operative treatment of cartilage damage is not helpful, you can partly modern arthroscopic cartilage transplantation or cartilage-bone transplants help to delay disease progression.