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When there's an injury, blood rushes to the afflicted area to help with repairs. Tissue around the afflicted area will swell as a result. If you elevate your ankle, you make it harder for the blood to get there as pressure to get there will need to be higher than it already is.
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How can you help your sprained ankle?
Ice
Acute phase for sprained ankle?
P.R.I.C.E.S protection rest ice compression elevation support
With a present sprained ankle I have steel fixtures in ankle from former ankle injury. Can I get an MRI?
It depends on how badly your ankle is sprained.
What bone is injured when you have a sprained ankle?
A sprained ankle is a tear in a ligament or tendon, not an injury to a bone.
How do you heal a serious sprained ankle?
Rice Procedure R Rest and support I ice cold Compression C compression E elevation
Should you use crutches if you have a sprained ankle?
Yes. I had to use crutches when I sprained my ankle. If you walk on it, it won't heal. And limping is fatiguing.
Did Brett Favre break his ankle or spring his ankle?
He severely sprained it
What is the Medical term meaning torn ankle ligament?
Sprained ankle.
How can you tell the difference between a sprained and twisted ankle?
There is no difference. A sprained ankle can also be known as an ankle sprain, twisted ankle, rolled ankle, ankle ligament injury, or ankle injury. It's when one or more ligaments are torn or partially torn where they are connected to your ankle bone.
Ankle sprained and I can't walk.?
Even if you can't use the ankle that has been sprained, it is possible to walk using the other leg and crutches.
What is the common sign that you sprained your ankle?
Your ankle is usually quite painful to walk on.
Did you chip a piece of bone when you sprained your ankle?
A sprained ankle can sometimes result in a bone chip, called an avulsion fracture. This is not a common result of a sprain.
