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How can you tell if your ankle bone has chipped?
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Xray: A break in the bone, including a chipped bone, is a fracture. It can only be definitively noted with diagnostic testing, like an xray.
Answered 4/17/2015
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X-ray: See either your family doctor or your podiatrist and have a x-ray taken and evaluated.
Answered 8/26/2013
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Only: By getting an x-ray, or MRI but x-ray should detect it.
Answered 6/10/2014
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