Rolling an ankle is generally quite painful. Swelling and bruising also usually occur, developing near the injured area. While you may not think of it as a sprained, strained or twisted ankle, these types of different terminology are commonly used to describe the same injury.
Instead of landing at an awkward angle, a rolled ankle generally happens to an individual during a sport or activity with plenty of stop and go action, where players are planting their feet and changing directions quite often. High impact sports such as soccer, football, basketball, volleyball and baseball all have moments where the chances of rolling your ankle is quite likely.
With that being said, those specific sports aren’t always the source of a rolled or sprained ankle. Your injury may have happened while you were walking, running, performing a yoga pose, taking a step class, skating during a competition – and so on- the point is, regardless of how you rolled your ankle, you’re here to get it healed up as fast as possible, aren’t you?
Rolled Ankle Types & Symptoms
Rolled ankles generally fall into two different categories – inversion and eversion sprains:
Inversion Ankle Sprain – An inversion ankle sprain is when your ankle becomes inverted, or falls inward. This motion ends up stretching your outer, or lateral, ligaments. Inversion ankle sprains are very common, and make up about 90% of all sprained ankles each year. Thankfully, it’s also one of the least complicated to treat and rehab, which makes recovery time much shorter, depending on the severity of the sprain.
Eversion Ankle Sprain – As you may have already guessed, an eversion ankle sprain is the exact opposite. This injury occurs when your foot is twisted outward, which puts too much stress on your inner deltoid ligament, stretching it beyond what it’s capable of withstanding. The pain is generally located on the inside of your ankle, as you’d probably expect, where the stretching originally occurred.
Symptoms will vary sightly, depending on the severity of your injury, and how exactly it happened. While swelling, bruising and pain are almost always present, you’ll most likely have a varying combination of all three.
The pain might be quite severe, with general swelling, but not much bruising. Or the pain may be much more tolerable, while the bruising and swelling are both relatively severe. Again, you’re own unique body, and the degree of your injury will determine the severity of your symptoms.
Rolled Ankle Treatment & Rehabilitation
Now we’re getting to the good stuff- this section of the article will be finished up upon completion of our A.C.T. ankle rehabilitation program. Please check back within the coming weeks. Thank you.
