NYU Langone's Natasha N. Desai, MD, breaks down Deuce McBride’s ankle injury! | The Injury Report - video Dailymotion

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00:00Nick's guard Deuce McBride has been balling to start the season, but as you know, he's missing some time on the court for that sprained ankle.

00:08Can you break down what could have caused the sprain and what's happening to the ankle when it makes impact to the ground?

00:15Yeah, the ankle, he appears to land planted and then his ankle kind of falls inward.

00:21So his foot goes outwards. That's called an eversion injury.

00:24More typical when you land on a foot or something like that.

00:27He does get a little hit by his opponent there.

00:30The typical ankle sprain is when you invert your foot, when the foot rolls inwards and you get that lateral ankle sprain.

00:37That is the most common type of ankle sprain.

00:40This is a little bit more complicated, which is why I think people are a little bit more on edge with this injury,

00:45because it appears to be a high ankle sprain or a syndesmotic sprain.

00:51If you had a patient that's not a pro athlete named Deuce McBride come in with a sprained ankle,

00:56would you treat them the same way?

00:59Absolutely. Exactly the same management.

01:01In a high ankle sprain, we want to make sure the ankle is stable, right?

01:05So you're doing x-rays first, ideally with stress views to see if there's any instability between the bones there.

01:11And unfortunately, specifically with high ankle sprains, we can't see all the tissues we need to see.

01:18So we're more often than not ordering an MRI if that's what we suspect.

01:21For regular ankle sprains, we typically don't get an MRI early because it's not really needed.