How do I treat my ankle?!
Question: How do I treat my ankle?
Answers:
Remember to treat your injury with ice when you first hurt it. You then treat it with heat after two days of ice.
1. Having said that, you muct elevate your ankle as much as possible. That includes when you sleep, too. Place pillows to elevate from the knee all the way to the foot (do not place pillows ONLY on the foot. You must include your knee too).
2. Do NOT massage. You may hurt it even more.
3. Treat it wiith a warm heating pad (place a towel between the heating pad and your skin)
4. Bandage or use the casket so long as its not tight (you don't want to kill the circulation)
5. Exercise it twice a day using a towel. Place the towel at the center of your foot and pull towards yourself.
6. Another exercise: stand behind a chair and tip toe while holding the back of the chair.
Do it five time to start...build it to 10 slowly
7. Take an over-the-counter muscle pain pill before you exercise.
8. Another exercise: Walk on sand.
9. ELEVATE...ELEVATE...ELEVATE
Hope this helps