Traumatic nerve injuries in ankle and foot caused by football

I just wanna ask a question about this neuropathy or peripheral nerve pain. What do the old athletes or other people who suffered this type of trauma do to help prevent all the pain associated with this injury but staying away from narcotics and opiates

@dwbfootball I am not a football player, but I do know some things about joint injuries. I rehabbed after surgeries for a badly broken ankle and my husband has issues with knee arthritis and ligaments. Your doctor will need to diagnose all the orthopedic issues first. They need to identify where your pain is coming from. Arthritis often plays a part after a physical injury and any misalignment of your body adds stress and wear to your joints. Pain can also be caused at any point along a nerve from your spine to your ankle and you would still feel it in your ankle. A bulging disc in your spine can press on a nerve causing pain somewhere in the body. If the problems are just in the ankle and calf, some things a doctor may do would be steroid injections or gel injections to add cushioning to the joint space. If there is little joint space and they describe it as “bone on bone”, they would likely talk about surgery. My husband said the gel injection helped his knee pain and it is starting to wear off and it’s been about 6 months since the second of 2 injections . If the issues are muscles, there is a physical therapy technique called myofascial release that can stretch out overly tight muscle and fascia. We have a discussion about MFR on Connect that you can find with searching. There is a provider search at mfrtherapists.com . There is also a website for information at myofascial release. Com . Tight tissues exert a lot of force on the body and on bones and joints. If you can loosen that, it may relieve pain. I do that with my ankle because the scar tissue from the injury and surgery tightens and pinches my joint space. When I loosen it, I get better mobility in the joint and normal walking movement. If the tendons and ligaments are tight, I end up compensating in my walking movements.

Hi. Thanks for the response. My doctor said he didn’t think my lumbar were bad enough to have surgery. He said they did have some arthritis. They did an electric nerve test in my leg and feel pretty certain that it is the L5 that’s pinching Nere. I have exercises and strengthening routines for that. Nonetheless if I exert, usually when cutting firewood myself I end up having 3 to 7 days of excruciating flashes of that electric hot iron pain if I tweak my back… I was looking for something that could help with the pain as I’m trying to get back on my feet. I did take some muscle relaxers from a broken foot I had a couple years ago and I finally got a night sleep but I really don’t wanna have to do that. I have done them fascia separation deep tissue massage as deep as my therapist could go she was a bit shocked. My wife now helps me with that so we’re just gonna stay going with that but again just looking for some relief when it’s flaring up

… have you tried something like gabapentin during a flareup of neuropathy or peripheral nerve pain