Body Works Ankle Anatomy

Body Works Sports Physiotherapy
604-983-6616
233 West 1st St #420
North Vancouver, BC V7M 1B3

Hi, this is Dana Ranahan from Body Works Sports Physiotherapy. And today I want to talk to you about the ankle. Now, many of us have had ankle sprains or injuries with growing up sometimes and maybe a little ankle fracture that healed quickly, but the ankle itself is actually quite complex joint.

So I have the bones in front of me here to kind of show you what they look like. So we can look a little bit about the anatomy of the ankle joint. Because we kind of think it's straight, simple, and it just bends back and forth. However, there's multiple joints that make that complex up. So as you can see, this is like the femur and the thighbone. We have the ankle underneath it. And there's a joint at the bottom of these two lower leg bones, the tibia and fibula right here, that sort of forms the groove of the ankle joint.

And this was called the Inferior tibia-fibular, til fib joint and it joins into the main part of the ankle joint called the talo-crural joint. And this is often where we can get trauma, some arthritic change, injury when we sprain our ankle. So if you end up having a sprain, you can sometimes butt up the joint a little bit and get an injury to the cartilage.