00:00Deuce McBride has missed time because of an ankle injury, but Jalen Brunson twisted his ankle a few times this season, and the latest was a non-contact injury tripping over his own foot.
00:12Then we fast forward to Josh Hart, who had an ankle injury coming down on someone else's foot.
00:18If you look at the videos and you replay them, you can see that the mechanism of the injury or how it happens is essentially the same, despite one being non-contact, tripping over his own foot, and the other one being he steps on someone else's foot.
00:33The foot still internally twists in, and the same ligaments and the same structures are stressed and injured and, you know, sprained at the end of the day, unfortunately.
00:46I'm sure at NYU Langone, you guys see a lot of patients or treat a lot of patients with ankle injuries, but let's say you have a patient that's not a professional athlete like Josh Hart or Jalen Brunson.
01:01How would you treat that patient with the same ankle injury?
01:05For ankle sprains, typically the first line of treatment is non-operative, conservative measures, so we would do physical therapy and functional rehabilitation.
01:13What I often tell patients to start out is to regain the range of motion, and so I tell them to draw out the alphabet with their feet to really restore that ankle range of motion sideways, up and down, and all around, and then combine it with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications.
01:32And these things typically get better for most people around six to eight weeks.
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