Last year, I rolled my ankle while hiking Monte Aquila in Abruzzo, Italy - the pain was so bad I had to be taken to the ER by helicopter. The X-ray showed no signs of fracture, so the doctor told me to wait three weeks and get an MRI in case it still hurt. Turns out it was, in fact, broken - a very fine fracture, but a fracture nonetheless. As soon as I regained mobility and was able to step on it, I started strengthening my ankle(s) and cycled and swam my way back to health.
Oof that’s a bad injury!! Those small fractures can really be troublesome because it is, to your point, so easy to miss them in a standard x ray. Glad you were able to swim through recovery!!
Last year, I rolled my ankle while hiking Monte Aquila in Abruzzo, Italy - the pain was so bad I had to be taken to the ER by helicopter. The X-ray showed no signs of fracture, so the doctor told me to wait three weeks and get an MRI in case it still hurt. Turns out it was, in fact, broken - a very fine fracture, but a fracture nonetheless. As soon as I regained mobility and was able to step on it, I started strengthening my ankle(s) and cycled and swam my way back to health.
Oof that’s a bad injury!! Those small fractures can really be troublesome because it is, to your point, so easy to miss them in a standard x ray. Glad you were able to swim through recovery!!