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pretty much just listen to the doctor
As soon as I sell this I might get a 150.
Swollen like a son of a bitch and hurt like hell. Doctor told me my screws were the only thing that kept it from breaking....
Anyways I doubled my dosage of pain pills ( come on, the recommend doseage is just that.....a recommendation)
Anyways stay off for two weeks ( doc said two months) and don't put any real pressure on her for those two weeks. At the end of that put the crutches down and try to walk 10 steps. If you can gut it out, your gonna be alright....if not give her another week and try again.
Remember it ain't broken so those few steps aren't gonna do any real damage if your not ready.
Best of luck to you buddy, I know your pain, mine finally stopped last week
Along with a host of other injuries, I'm still not fully recovered from an ankle sprain from this last december. A full eight months and I'm still in pain. I have full range of motion, I have full strength, but it hurts sometimes. It's part of life, and part of the game.
My gf is an emergency room RN. As soon as I came home I was told broken, along with I've never seen bruising and swelling like that before. Xray and MRI revealed nothing broken, not even a fracture. However I did so much soft tissue damage the doctor told me had I gone ahead and just broken my foot and tib/fib they would have me walking in a month no problem.
I was on crutches for three months. RICE is still the preferred treatment. Rest. Ice. Compression. Elevation. NSAIDS, such as ibuprofen and naproxen for swelling, tylenol for pain. Go see a doctor. Get evaluated. Sprains and soft tissue damage are often time much more debilitating than people give them credit for. Broken bones are bad, but once diagnosed and set ( or operated on) they heal amazing fast. Listen to your doctor. Do your physical therapy.
Pit Row
I sprained and fractured mine a few days after Christmas and was back on it and working on the day after new years.
Chest and bicep's every day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvxMf8hC9Rw
you want to crank this thing tight. for the first couple of hours it will hurt, really hurt....... if you are compressing it hard. as the fluid build up starts to dissipate it won't be that bad at all. sleeping with it is not that fun but certainly worth it as you will be able to walk on the ankle the following day fairly easily. the key is taking it off only for an hour or two each day and leaving it on/sleeping with it on to keep the compression going. if you remove the brace for more than several hours during the first week after injury, the swelling will quickly return. its a pain in the arse but is well worth it considering how much you will be able to do with it vs. just the good old RICE method.
here is the brace i use;
http://www.amazon.com/McDavid-Lightweight-Ankle-Brace-Medium/dp/B000UVV…
I sprained mine really bad when I was 9, the doctor said 15 days without putting weight on it. Got bored and wasn't that much painful anymore 7 days after and started to walk again slowly without crutches.
As a result, I can now only move my ankle from front to back but not from side to side. A pain in the ass to walk on rough terrains or off cambers, or even sometimes on some poorly build pavements. But not that much pain for 25 years.
I'm 34 now and weirdly, the pain woke up a few months ago and I feel it every day.
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