Editorial policy: how the ankle guides are made
The people behind the ankle guides
Analyze My Ankle is written by the independent team that runs JointLens. We publish as the site, not under the name of a doctor, because no foot and ankle surgeon, sports physician or radiologist writes or signs off our pages. If that ever changes, the reviewer will be named on the page they reviewed.
Where AI helps and where it does not
We draft guides with help from AI language models, then a team member rewrites the draft and compares the medical claims with the sources listed on the page. Translations into the other eight languages are produced with AI from the English text, which stays the reference version. The ankle analyzer works differently: several general-purpose AI models describe the MRI or X-ray slices you choose in real time, and nobody reads those answers before you do.
What we accept as a source
For ankle topics we go back to the paper that introduced a rule or grading, for example the Ottawa ankle rules for deciding when an injured ankle needs an X-ray, or the Weber classification of ankle fractures. Beyond those we use peer-reviewed reviews found through PubMed and recommendations from groups such as the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society and the American College of Radiology. Each medical page lists its main references under Sources. Blog posts and product pages are not used as evidence.
Not a diagnosis, not a treatment plan
Our guides explain terms such as an ATFL tear or a bone bruise so a report becomes easier to read. They do not tell you whether your sprain needs a boot, a brace or surgery, and they cannot replace an examination. An ankle you cannot stand on after an injury needs a clinician, not a web page. Read the Medical Disclaimer for the full limits.
Updates and re-checks
Guides carry an Updated date. We revisit an ankle page when the rule, classification or guideline it describes is revised, and whenever a reader tells us something is off. We do not run a scheduled review of every page, and we will not pretend that we do.
Found a mistake?
Use the feedback form below to send a correction. Include the address of the page and the sentence you think is wrong; a link to a better source helps. Confirmed errors are fixed and the page date is updated.
Ankle scans are processed in your browser
The ankle studies you open are decoded inside your browser tab and never stored on our servers. An AI explanation sends only rendered images of the slices you selected plus your note, not the DICOM files. See the Privacy Policy for details.