The fibular collateral ligament complex provides further lateral support to the ankle.
Ankle gutter anatomy.
It is located slightly posterior to the medial malleolus which allows a larger exposure of the lateral wall of the talus along the lateral gutter as compared with the medial aspect of the ankle joint.
Anterior ankle impingement typically occurs in athletes who have played years in sports that involve a kicking motion or repeated ankle extremes of motion.
Anterior ankle impingement is a source of chronic ankle pain seen in athletes that complain of longstanding chronic pain in the front of their ankle.
Patients will complain of pain around the anterolateral ankle gutter during weightbearing and may feel like the pain is deep in the joint.
The iateral ankle gutter is comprised of the articulation between the fibula and talar dome with the lateral collateral ligaments encountered inferiorly.
The anterolateral ankle gutter is the most common site of ankle impingement.
Anterolateral impingement of the ankle is a relatively uncommon cause of chronic lateral ankle pain produced by entrapment of abnormal soft tissue in the anterolateral gutter of the ankle 2 4.
Anatomy the ankle is a synovial joint composed of the distal tibia and fibula as they articulate with the talus.
3 over time a meniscoid lesion is often the result of the lateral ankle injury.
The cfl is by far the strongest of these.
Moderate scarring of the deltoid ligament complex which could be a source of posteromedial ankle impingement pomi lesion.
The distal tibia and fibula articulate with each other at the distal tibiofibular joint which is more commonly referred to as the tibiofibular syndesmosis or simply the syndesmosis.
3 during an inversion ankle injury the anterior talofibular ligament and calcaneofibular ligament are affected as is the distal syndesmosis.
Ankle anatomy normal ap mortise.
There is adjacent mild to moderate tendinosis and tenosynovitis involving the tibialis posterior and flexor digitorum longus tendons.
The lateral collateral ligament complex is comprised of the anterior talofibular ligament atfl the calcaneofibular ligament cfl and the posterior talo fibular ligament ptfl.
The weight bearing portion is formed by the tibial plafond and the talar dome.
The corresponding posterior facet on the superior surface of the calcaneus.
It is known as a simple synovial condyloid joint.
This joint due to its orientation allows the movements of inversion 0 35 degrees and eversion 0 25 degrees broken down this must mean the joint allows some amount of glide and rotation.
