What is the best way to heal a sprained ankle in 2 weeks?
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RICE approach:\n\nRest--You may need to rest your ankle, either completely or partly, depending on how serious your sprain is. Use crutches for as long as it hurts you to stand on your foot. \n\nIce--Using ice packs, ice slush baths or ice massages can decrease the swelling, pain, bruising and muscle spasms. Keep using ice for up to 3 days after the injury. \n\nCompression--Wrapping your ankle may be the best way to avoid swelling and bruising. You'll probably need to keep your ankle wrapped for 1 or 2 days after the injury and perhaps for up to a week or more. \n\nElevation--Raising your ankle to or above the level of your heart will help prevent the swelling from getting worse and will help reduce bruising. Try to keep your ankle elevated for about 2 to 3 hours a day if possible. \n\nWhat is the best way to use ice?\nPutting ice on your ankle can be very helpful, but you also need to be careful. The cold can damage nerves if the ice is left in place too long. \n\nIce can be left on your ankle for up to 20 minutes at a time. When your skin feels numb, it's time to remove the ice. Use ice treatments every 2 to 4 hours for the first 3 days after your injury. Ice treatments can consist of ice packs, ice slush baths or ice massages. \n\nTo use ice packs, partly fill a plastic bag with crushed ice. Wrap a thin, wet cloth around your injury. Place the ice pack over this and then wrap an elastic bandage around the ice pack to hold it in place. \n\nFor ice slush baths, fill a large bucket with water and ice. Place your ankle in the bucket until the skin gets numb.\n\nIce massages can work well for small areas. Freeze water in 4- to 8-ounce styrofoam (coffee) cups. Tear the top part of the cup away from the ice. Hold the covered end and slowly rub the ice over the sprained area with a circular motion. Don't hold the ice on one spot for more than 30 seconds.
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4-5 weeks if you're big superstar like 'Goldenballs Beckham" who has access to finest medical science can offer. Best to let it rest for 6-8 weeks. Eat healthily and it'll heal, all broken bones do. \nAnd thank God for that.
195214
First you need to get the swelling down. There are several methods available to do this, but putting your ankle/foot in ice is the best way to start. Don't just put ice on your ankle, put your foot/ankle in a bucket of ice water. \n\nWhile you have your foot in the ice water, start writing the letters of the alphabet with your big toe. This will help you relieve some of the stiffness in your ankle and will assist in moving the blood (swelling) out so you can start the rehab process. \n\nThen you need an aggressive strengthening program. R.I.C.E. is slow and really only applies to the initial day(s) after an injury. \n\nAlthough the RICE protocol does help with the pain somewhat, it has nothing to rehab your sprained ankle.\n\nIf you don't properly rehab your ankle, you will very likely experience more serious and more frequent sprains. \n\nDon't fall for the quick fix patches because a large part of the rehab process is mental...you have to believe and know that your ankle is rehabilitated before you will actually be able to return to your normal activities.
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1. Glucosamine\n2. Elastic knee brace/bandage\n3. Ice/Ibuprofen, etc. to reduce swelling/inflammation\n4. Stretch beforehand. Put your knees together, feet close together as well, and rotate your knees slowly in circles, first one way then the other for about 5 turns.\n5. If those don't help, you better see a doc.---------\n--------------\n6. Um, like the other person said, don't wear heels. (Duh to me)
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Rest with the foot elevated (above heart level)and apply ice for a minimum of 20 minutes on, 30 minutes off. Anything less than 20 minutes is not going to help. Also, do not apply heat. That's like throwing fuel onto the fire. You can also take an anti-inflammatory such as Tylenol or Advil.\n\nJust be careful and take pre-cautions with the ankle such as taping it for awhile. I lost a college scholarship when I sprained my ankle one too many times and ended up having to have the tendons and ligaments surgically repaired.
660763
Yes - do make sure you get it x-rayed - easy to confuse a bad sprain and a fracture.  Arnica does work really well too.\n\nTransverse friction massage - working across the affected ligament will help the scar tissue to heal better.  Text books say this should be done for up to 10 minutes - good luck!\n\nTo relieve other pain in the area, massage it with an ice cube for a few minutes.  This will numb it up good (but hold the ice cube with paper towels or something, otherwise your fingers will also get really numb!!)
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what kind of pain is it? \nif it's a nagging pain, most likely the bone is bruised.\nsince it hurts when you move, you most likely tore a ligament.\nbut since you were able to manage the pain, I'm sure it's nothing major.\n\ni think it will still be best if you see a doctor. two weeks is a long time for pain and it might need to be seen by a doctor so that it will heal correctly.
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If your ankle is sprained, you should stay off of it.  I know thats not what you wanted to hear.  Dr's really won't do anything for a sprain but wrap it with an ace bandage(they sell them at walmart)tell you to stay off of it, keep ice on it and keep it elevated.  Good Luck!
904859
Rule of thumb: RICE it for first 72 hours.\n\nR: rest\nI: ice\nC: compression\nE: elevation\n\nIf it still hurts, better go ahead and see a doctor....good luck.
1135621
Keep it elevated, ice it twice a day and take some advil.  It is not better in 2 days see a doctor.
244512
If you sprained it and did not acutally break anything, it could take LONGER to heal than if you had a fracture. STAY off of it for at least two weeks if at all possible, and when you're sitting, keep it ABOVE YOUR HEART, not just up off the floor. This will help with the swelling and pain.\nAspirin, Ibuprofin, Motrin or Aleve are also good for swelling and inflamation, and you can take Tylenol in between doses to help more with pain. If it is a sprain, it could take MONTHS to heal right, or YEARS if you don't treat it right. Sorry. That's the best I can do sweety. Feel better soon!
820106
If you think you strained your ACL then you need to see your physician immediately and will likely be referred to an orthopedist for specific testing for the integrity of the ligament.  Then you will likely be referred to physical therapy so that you knee can be adequately strengthened and stabilized to compensate for the strain as it heals.  And no, you will not be healed by next week if you truly sprained your ACL and, in fact, will be exposing yourself to further potential injury by playing next week.
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It most certainly does. It soothes away the pain and (especially if you use it with hot water) soothes away the pain wonderfully. I don't know how it does it, but when I sprained my ankle I soaked it is Epsom salt every night and it healed up really quickly. The best way to know if it works on YOU is to just try it, I'm sure you'll be satisfied.
841920
If you have torn your ligaments, you probably have strained the neural tissue in the associated area. I would bet that you are having the ligaments repaired on the front-outer edge of your ankle. Following an ankle sprain/tear, you can damage the nerve that runs over the front of the ankle, and a nerve that is under the ankle bone on the inside of your foot. Either can cause a burning sensation esp. at night.\n\nIf the burning sensation is over the top of the foot, is the former, and if its the sole of the foot, is the latter.\n\nWhen you have your op. you will be in plaster for a few weeks. that should help settle it down.\n\nAfterwards, with post-op physio, you will get exercises, and probably neural stretches which will help.
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Rest and ice are the best things you can do to get rid of shin splints. Ice them for 15-20 minutes every four hours. The easiest way to ice them is to put a frozen gelpack against your shin and wrap an ace bandage around it.\n\nTwo things come to mind: your shoes and your running surfface. What kind of surface are you running on? If it's mostly sidewalk, try running on pavement/asphalt instead, if possible. Each time your feet hit the ground, the shock energy needs to go somewhere. Shoes do a large amount of shock absorbtion, so a good match to your foot and running style is pretty important. If you can add softer ground to the equation, it'll help minimize or alleviate your splints.
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A sprain you can wrap and will heal on its own, a fracture needs to be set.  I thought I sprained my ankle last year and after 6 weeks of it only getting worse, went to the doctor, had an MRI, and found that I fracture my ankle bone and would never heal on its own.  I was in a hard cast, then walking cast, then physical therapy for about 4 months total.  If I had gone to the doctor sooner, I could have cut the hard cast out and my healing time in half.
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Try a splint with duct tape.