Because you can break your toe! I have been playing soccer since I was 6, everytime I kicked with my toe I either sprained/broke it or got pulled out of the next 2 games.
Wear a solid shoe with a stiff sole to protect the injured toe and keep it stable. Avoid shoes that put pressure on the toe. As long as you are careful, you should not need crutches for a sprained toe.
Yes, toes can be sprained. A toe sprain occurs when the ligaments connecting the bones in the toe become overstretched or torn due to injury or trauma. Symptoms may include pain, swelling, bruising, and difficulty moving the toe. Treatment usually involves rest, ice, compression, and elevation.
Not always, your toe is purple because you have broken blood vessels in your toe and the blood has leaked out into your tissue. Your body will absorb this spilled blood in time and you can watch your toe turn all kinds of colors during this process. To see if you have indeed broken a bone and not sprained it, you need to have an x-ray.
The symptoms of a broken toe can be very similar to that of a badly sprained toe. Usually an X-ray will show up a break. Either way, your toe will feel very sore and swollen. Apply an icepack to it for five minutes every now and then and avoid walking on it for a while. Surely your parents will believe you if you no longer go places you would normally want to. It probably isn't broken, but sprained and you will still feel very uncomfortable with a sprain. If things haven't improved in a week you should get it looked at again. Take care!
You dont strap a broken toe. You leave it. This is because it is hard to strap to another toe
No. Sprains typically require little more than bracing and time to heal.
A phalanx is a toe bone. Thus a fractured proximal phalanx is a broken toe.
Yes.
Just about everything you can imagine ... broken bones, sprained ankles and knees, torn ligaments in ankles and knees, separated shoulder, concussion, pulled muscles (usually hamstrings and groins), and the dreaded turf toe.
I have broken my toe in two places.
Yes, only the toe is broken not the ankle.