A small, stable fracture in the cartilage and bone unit of the ankle may be treated conservatively with a boot, but a detached piece requires different management.

“if there's a crack depends depends if that piece is what we call stable or unstable so you can have a crack in the cartilage and Bone unit that is in place in situ in you could leave that alone maybe give a boot um if it that piece is detached then that's a difference”