Whether you believe it or not your feet support your body. You need to take care of them the best you can. If you start to feel pain and / or swelling in the ankle area of the foot, you could be showing signs of ankle tendonitis and you should take care of this immediately.

Let me keep you some background information and also talk a little bit about how we can help prevent tendinitis in the ankle.

Runners and joggers can get into a training mode that can be sometimes hard on their ankles. This also can happen to people who have jobs that required them being on their feet constantly. What can happen is that you may start to develop tendonitis in your ankles.

What is tendonitis? It is really just an inflammation of the tendon. The tendon is used to connect the bone to the actual muscle. What happens sometimes if the tendon gets overworked or you may put too much force on a particular tendon you could develop tendonitis.

If you have developed ankle tendonitis you are going to find it difficult to move the ankle without feeling a very sharp pain starting in the ankle area and working its way up to the calf. Most times the common symptoms that you will have will be pain, swelling and tenderness to the touch in the area of the ankle.

There is another similar tendonitis which is called Achilles tendonitis. This is the inflammation of the Achilles tendon and this is very common form of ankle tendonitis. These two types of tendonitis occur in runners and people on there feet a lot.

What can you do about Ankle Tendonitis

If you have a mild case of ankle of tendonitis, you can use a home remedy that works great and that is ice. You can use a frozen bag of vegetables to accomplish this. You want to just use the ice for 15 minutes at a time. Don’t let the area get numb, that is not good. Ice it, then let it warm up and do it again. If you need to be on your feet, you can use an ace bandage to help support the ankle and prevent further injury.

Another method that doctor’s sometimes prescribe is a cortisone injection. They are not to much in favor of this in the ankle because the tendon can rupture very easy. You can also put a cushion in your shoe and this is going to help support the foot and possibly keep you somewhat pain free during activity.

Your feet are going to carry you for a long time and keeping them injury free is important. This will include not getting ankle tendonitis. If you avoid taking care of the problem, you risk developing permanent injury and that is not something you want to do.

If you start to feel pain or swelling in your ankle and you have had ankle tendonitis in the past, you need to try and not over do it. One thing that you may want to do is to talk to a physical therapist or even an orthopedic doctor to learn how to not injure or learn to maneuver your feet during physical activity. This will help prevent further damage. If you can, get off your feet and give them a chance to rest.