A short video helping with Ankle sprains, a seemingly common injury that most people have had once in their lifetimes.
What are ankle sprains?
Ankle sprains, a seemingly common injury that most people have had once in their lifetimes. Sometimes sprains are small with only small amounts of swelling. Often, ankle sprains can be huge, causing the leg and foot to bruise heavily with swelling the size of a grapefruit around the ankle! This can cause days if not weeks of being unable to weight bare on the affected foot.
Protocol tells us to ice it, keep it elevated and gently move it. But what happens next?
Usually, once the swelling goes down – we forget we ever had the ankle sprain in the first place – then suddenly, out of the blue – your back starts playing up, or possibly your knee.
Why you should treat ankle sprains
Ankle sprains can cause HAVOC with your entire body! When we see an ankle sprain on our injury history forms – this is one of the first areas we look at – even if the pain is in your shoulder. After a sprain, the brain very cleverly protects your foot by not allowing your foot to open and close like it did before – after all, it doesn’t want to allow the ankle to sprain again. But by doing this, we now enter a space where other bones above are also going to move less – including your lower leg bones, your upper leg bone – what then happens at the pelvis and the spine – the neck?
Never overlook a sprain. These need to be treated by someone who fully understands foot mechanics and also who can help you integrate the movement back into your whole body again.