How can I reduce swelling (apart from ice packs)?!
Question: My physio told me not to dance...But I did dance and now my knee looks like a balloon.
I've had ice on it for hours but it hasn't helped.
What else can I do?
Answers: My physio told me not to dance...But I did dance and now my knee looks like a balloon.
I've had ice on it for hours but it hasn't helped.
What else can I do?
Well Ice is possibly the best thing that can help something swollen and injured. The only thing about ice is do not keep the ice on for too long, and do not keep it directly on the skin!
Other things to reduce swelling is:
-stretching
-rest
-resting it up above your bellybutton and put a pillow below your knee
-medicine such as aspirin or ibuprofen to relieve pain and reduce swelling
-wrapping it lightly with a bandage
Overall ice is the best! keep applying that!
Keep your knee elevated and keep icing it. Because- ice is nice. :] Stay off it unless it is absoultly nessasary, and wrap it with some icy hot or some other athletic rub before you go to sleep. Don't dance. It won't heal unless you stay off it for a while.
Best of luck.
soak in a warm bath with epsom salts. it should really help! also, make sure to drink plenty of water to flush out your system!
Alternate Ice and heat in twenty minute incraments. STAY OFF OF IT. your doctor didnt tell you not to dance just because he wanted to piss you off. He did it to help it heal. So listen to him. Advil/Ibuprofen (Spelling?) are wonderful things as well.
besides all the good answers so far ... I would say massage it going from the direction of your ankle up to your hip ... that should help the fluid come back to your trunk
Use ice than heat. You should elevate your legs. Keep your
legs higher than your heart. Sometimes you can wrap a ace
bandage around your legs.
Just keep putting Ice on it and try not to put that much pressure and use it too much.
And I know it will be hard, but you'll have to stop dancing till it gets better
Hi,
ice and rest and dont dance for sometime
Cheers
Ice and keep off it.
An alternative remedy could be amputation, but there wouldn't be much of a career in dancing. LoL