freakin bum ankle

magicace · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 180 City: houston

anyone in here ever sprained an ankle... ya well i'm suffereing from that and it sucks!!! i wanna go ride... but it hurts like crap! i'll post pictures soon

fastgreens · Kickflip Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 3563 City: baytown

keep walking on it

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

Yep! I've had plenty of ankle sprains back when I played soccer a lot. I'm actually nursing a sprained toe right now. Messed it up the Monday before last playing indoor soccer and I can still hardly walk on it. But yeah, sprains totally suck for sure because there's really nothing you can do other than rest it...and who wants to be off their feet for weeks on end? I'd go get an ankle brace if you don't have one already.

magicace · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 180 City: houston

ya i did it on a friday playin basketball... its starting to bruise and its still kinda swollen... it looks nice! lol

BB · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 1706

magicace, Ice it and elevate it. Also do simple exercises. I used to sprain the shizzle out of my ankle when I played basketball. Would turn every color you could think of, kinda nasty.

EJazzle · Posted: Apr 24, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

i have a bunch of times! ice and Elevation is key. i'm just gettin over a hurt back. man did that SUCK

EJazzle · Posted: Apr 24, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

i hope your ankle gets better soon!

magicace · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 180 City: houston

me 2!!! i wanna go home and ride... not sit around and be useless lol

Jordan Sprague · Posted: Apr 25, 2008 10:34 am Post subject:

deff make sure you keep alot of pressure on it and try to bounce on it and jump on it as much as you can and DONTTTT ice it at all

kornhouse · Posted: Apr 25, 2008 3:33 pm Post subject:

yea start soaking it in a bucket of hot water mixed with epsom salt. and dont use crutches for that long and stretch it continuously whether your watching tv at school/work or whatever just roll it around. i made the mistake of not doing that with mine a few months ago when i tore some stuff down there and it was all swollen and bruised and now i cant squat down and keep my heel ont he groudn at the same time Sad

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Apr 25, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject:

i rolled my ankle kickflippin this stair case the other day, i got so scared i broke it i was freakin out, and i had to like hope back home on one leg, but it was better after a week, but its still all bruised.

BB · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 1706

Jordan Sprague, Don't ice it? What, the point is to get the swelling down. The first time I sprained one of my ankles I neglected the ice and now my ankle is permanently swollen where the sprain was. From then on I let the trainers take care of it and ice, elevation and exercises was the regiment, everyday. Healed quickly and perfectly.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

Yeah I don't think I'd listen to Jordan's advice.

Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation

That's pretty much the standard practice when it comes to spraining stuff. From there it will vary from physical trainer to physical trainer, and from person to person depending on how well you know your body and how bad your injury is. Personally, I try to follow the above RICE regiment and stay off the injury as much as possible for at least two days, and from there I'll tape it up and hobble around until I can put weight on it and then I'll start moving it around a bit just to make sure I've got a full range in motion. But as far as I know sprains = tears in your tendons, so I wouldn't try to rush your recovery. Unfortunately, spraining stuff just sucks and there's really nothing you can do about it unless you know how to tape your ankle up real good. That'd actually be something that would be worth googling if you wanna get out and ride this weekend or whatever.

dylo · Posted: Apr 26, 2008 3:49 am Post subject:

I've broken both ankles twice, torn ligaments going along with a hairline spiral fracture in the right as well as bone coming off with the ligaments.
go eat a cup of concrete and harden the fvck up

bob. · Posted: Apr 26, 2008 9:08 am Post subject:

yea definately do what scott a said, rice ftw!

magicace · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 180 City: houston

here is one picture...
swelling has gone down since this picture 5 days ago, but the bruising has kinda gotten alittle worse... i've been elevating and iceing the crap outta my foot... i can walk on it now, and i'm goin in to make sure i didnt perminatly tear anything tomorrow...

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Apr 27, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject:

ewwww dang yo get some ice on that beasty. mine was a bit bruised the first day, but its almost better now, still hurts when i twist it or put to much wieght on it.

magicace · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 180 City: houston

you shoulda seen it the day it happened... dude people were like almost throwing up it looked so disgusting... it looked like i had an orange in my ankle