Sprained Ankle

Here's a helpful tip with sprained ankles. I've sprained mine multiple times in my younger years, two times pretty severely. And the ones that healed the quickest and the fastest was the time when within the first 24 hours I emerged my whole foot and basically an ice bath, just a bucket with ice and water and put my foot in up above the ankle sprain and held it there as long as I could and took it out and did that multiple times, you know, off and on through like an hour, put it in and that ankle healed a lot quicker than my other sprains that weren't as severe.

I've sprained my ankle many times, two really bad times, and what I found was what helped the best and made a quicker recovery was after I had sprained them, I got a big bucket or a huge bowl, put ice and water, and just submerged my foot into that ice bath and held it there as long as I could and then take it out and repeated that over a period of time. Within the first 24 hours, I would do different sessions, but that definitely helped lessen the amount of time that it took for my ankle to recover so that I could return to the sport I was playing.

I've sprained my ankle, both of them, probably about ten times each from playing basketball in high school. So, I know it sucks. A helpful tip though is putting your foot in like a bucket of ice water. It's the pain, it's awful. It's like almost worse than spraining your ankle, but my swelling has gone down so much when I do that with my ankle. And also keep your like shoe or sock on so at least there's some compression on it to like stop the swelling once it happens.

The biggest tip I can give is to keep it stabilized as much as you can and stay off of it as much as you can. The majority of the times that I have sprained my ankle I was dancing and usually we have a show every four months and so there's it's not a lot of time to heal and be keeping up with that so whenever you can rest it do it. I would always wrap mine a little bit tighter overnight to keep things a little bit more solidified when I wasn't moving. A ton of ice, I used a ton of ice especially in the first 24 hours to just keep swelling down to make it less painful and then just pain meds. Do everything you can with pain meds to just keep that pain down and keep the swelling down because those are going to be like the biggest things. Also elevate it if you can elevate it on a pillow when you're laying down that way the blood doesn't get stuck in there.