Genevieve Tawiah

speaker

168 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard yesterday

Genevieve Tawiah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

What's Up Docs? · How can you better look after your ankles? · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

The strain is referring to the muscle.

Sometimes you'll see, unlike people's MRI reports or scans or assessments, that those terms are used interchanged.

Essentially, it refers to something being overstretched beyond its boundaries of what it's meant to be supporting.

So when we refer to a ligament sprain,

it should have flexibility and it should let you move.

So it should let us rotate the foot inwards.

But if force takes it a bit further than standard, you then sustain a sprain and an injury where it is a little bit looser than standard.

So it doesn't have that tension to keep that joint as stable as it was.

If you've managed to stumble and catch and you can continue walking, you're not in too much pain and just like a little pocket of swelling comes off, that's probably going to be a lesser sprain.

We kind of grade them in one, two and three.

So it might be like a grade one where it's a bit sore and sensitive.

You get a little pocket of swelling, but you can still move the ankle.

It might not like all the way in, but you can still move it relatively pain free and you can walk on it.

Those ones typically...

Carry on within the limits of your pain and actually the stronger you get that ankle within the limits of your pain, the better.

Your grade twos might have had a bit more of a stumble or might have had a prior injury to that ligament where it's actually a bit more sore and they might limp the first day and it might feel weaker on their movement.

And then the grade three is usually like, I can't put weight on it.

And it sometimes gets a bit hard to distinguish between have we completely ruptured the ligament or have you potentially fractured the outer knobbly bit, the lateral malleolus because of the force in that region.

So there's an avulsion fracture where, yes, you rupture the ligament and it pulls a little chunk off the bone.

if you put your foot down and you get in searing pain that is radiating up or it swells immediately and it balloons up or it's really, really tender to touch despite maybe having rested it up for a moment or something visibly just doesn't look right.

Showing 61–80 of 168 · page 4 of 9