Sprained ankles are usually very frustrating.

They are – there’s certainly no doubt about that…

Depending on the severity of your sprained ankle injury, most sprains can frustrate you for weeks, even months.

(In some rare cases, a more severe sprain that’s left to heal on its own can haunt you for years, especially if it weakens your ankle enough, and becomes a chronic, reoccurring injury.)

This could mean taking time off from work or school, missing important events, suffering through a crummy vacation, skipping out on fun wedding activities,
missing out on important family time, limiting your physical activity, skipping your next dance recital, having trouble driving … the list is practically endless!

Whether it’s due to the pain, swelling, or bruising, all three can play a role in limiting your mobility, and, ultimately, holding you back in your everyday life.

If you can’t move around properly, your quality-of-life plummets pretty fast…

But, what if you could tap into the same, cutting-edge techniques that pro athletes use to treat their injuries, and get back to enjoying your life in record time? Wouldn’t that make things a whole lot easier?

Even if you’re not an athlete, these same, powerful techniques can be used to jump-start your progress, and help you safely move through the various stages of healing that much faster.

Unfortunately, we’re getting ahead of ourselves here…

Before we get into the core strategies and explanations of a proper sprained ankle treatment program, let’s take a step back for a moment, and go over how an ankle sprain actually happens.

(If you’d prefer to skip the science and research, go ahead and click here to access your free online consultation. We’ll be covering the basics there too, including many other questions you may have.)

What Exactly Is An Ankle Sprain?

The term “sprained ankle” or “ankle sprain” refers to an injury that either partially stretches or tears the ligaments that help support your ankle.

This momentary stretch generally occurs very quickly, commonly while performing some type of physical activity, motion, or movement.

An ankle sprain may also be described as a twisted ankle, rolled ankle, swollen ankle, buckled ankle, folded ankle, or a combination of those related, descriptive terms.

While technically incorrect, it is also very common for individuals to refer to an ankle sprain as an ankle strain. However, when you call an injury a strain, this term is medically used to express damage or stretching that has been done specifically to a muscle, not a ligament.

Sprained Ankle Symptoms: Swelling, Bruising & Weakness

Once you’ve experienced a sprained ankle, your body reacts almost instantly. Along with pain, swelling and bruising, ankle weakness also makes up the most common symptoms of a typical ankle sprain.

The pain is most often worse when trying to walk, or apply weight to your injured ankle, which should be avoided for at least the first day or two following your injury.

After you’ve assessed the extent of the damage, and can better understand what has occurred, chances are you’ll be in for a much smoother, faster recovery.

Next, we’ll be going through three of the most common types of ankle sprains, before moving onto some treatment recommendations and suggestions.

Sprained Ankle Types: Inversion, Eversion & High Ankle Sprain Injuries

There are three common types of ankle sprain injuries: an inversion, eversion, and high ankle sprain.

While all three are slightly different, the same form of treatment and rehabilitation should be used for each. Depending on your injury, you may also have a combination of one or more sprains, where multiple locations are affected, swollen, and/or bruised.

Inversion/Lateral Ankle Sprain: Ankle Rolls Outward, Foot Faces Inward

An inversion ankle sprain, also known as a lateral sprain, is by far the most common of the three, and refers to an injury that causes your ankle to move outward, while your foot faces inward, primarily affecting, stretching, and even tearing the outside ligaments that help support your ankle.

The majority of your swelling will likely be centralized around the outside ligaments of your ankle, which is also where most of the damage has occurred. Both the location and amount of bruising is usually quite varied, and may actually move around as you continue to recover from your injury.

Eversion/Medial Ankle Sprain: Ankle Rolls Inward, Foot Faces Outward

An eversion sprain, also known as a medial sprain, refers to an injury that occurs in the opposite direction, causing your ankle to move inward, while your foot faces outward. This motion primarily affects, stretches, and can even tear the inside ligament.

While this sort of injury is quite uncommon, it happens most often during high activity sports, such as football, basketball, hockey, or soccer. A typical scenario is when a player lands on your lower leg, as your foot is being planted on the ground, causing the sprain to occur.

With this type of injury, the amount of swelling isn’t quite as dramatic, but will likely be located towards the inside, or near the back of your ankle, with moderate pain occurring in the same region.

High Ankle Sprain (Syndesmotic/Syndesomosis Ligament Injury)

Medically referred to as a syndesmotic or syndesomosis ligament sprain, a high ankle sprain is an injury that affects, stretches, and can even tear the ligaments that connect the tibia (shin) and the fibula, the two bones that make up your lower leg, and connect near the top of your ankle.

While severe inversion and eversion sprains can typically be healed after some brief rest, specific techniques, and rehab exercises, severe high ankle sprains can take up to twice as long to heal, largely due to the complexity of the injury.

As their initial treatment, some individuals may need to wear a protective boot or cast for a short amount of time, whereas others may actually require surgery to help repair and stabilize the affected ligaments, before stretching and regaining strength with a comprehensive rehab program.

ACT Sprained Ankle Treatment & Rehabilitation Program

Almost all sprained ankles are simple to treat at-home, but only if you understand the process, what needs to be accomplished, and in what order our bodies recover most effectively.

This is why we’ve spent hundreds of hours planning, testing and developing our ACT sprained ankle treatment and rehabilitation program.

It’s a comprehensive ankle rehab program that takes you through, step-by-step, and teaches you how to safely recover from any type of ankle sprain in the shortest amount of time possible.

Before we get to the techniques and strategies behind our sprained ankle treatment program, we prefer our clients to run through our free online consultation, which will teach you more about your injury, discuss in-depth what our program includes, and also show you the average results other clients have already experienced.

To get started with your free online consultation, click here, or below.

I look forward to getting you started with the program today,

(Bradley Barks, Fitness Coach)