Acupuncture helps relieve Ankle Pain for 36 year old female

The patient had  a level 3 ankle sprain over a year ago. Saw one of the supposedly-best-Harvard-grad orthopedic surgeon in Dallas who put her in a boot for 2 months. After the boot came off, her left ankle was still swollen and in pain and her range of motion was very limited. I also started experiencing pain and ‘popping’ in my left knee. She felt that being in the boot had allowed her ligaments to heal, BUT over her still-misaligned ankle, which seems to defeat the purpose of wearing the boot to heal her ligament in the first place. She went back to the surgeon with my concerns, and he told her that her choices were to go for physical therapy, or he can do an exploratory surgery to see if there is an underlying problem. She was not going to let someone cut her up to just look around? So, she started going for physical therapy for almost 3 months with basically no improvement. she then started to see a Chiropractor for almost 30 sessions. Range of motion increased but not fully recovered. The Chiropractor performed dry needling which was painful and did not seem to be effective. After his sessions, she still couldn’t bend my ankle or squat, and she would still get pain each time she would walk, both on my ankle and knee. At this point, she was pretty dejected.