A twisted ankle is essentially the same injury as a sprained or strained ankle. Put simply, all of these descriptions are of the same event. The only difference is the terminology being used to explain the action. While this may seem a little confusing at first, you’ll begin to understand once we get into a few explanations.
What Is A Twisted Ankle?
Twisted ankles are generally classified as damage that has been done to the supporting muscles, ligaments, and connective tissue in (you guessed it) the ankle. However, the source of the injury can vary widely. Depending on your daily activities, it may have happened walking, biking, playing a specific sport, following an unorthodox fall, the possibilities are pretty endless.
Thankfully, it doesn’t matter how you twisted your ankle, the treatment and rehabilitation process is the same for most ankle injuries that haven’t resulted in a broken bone.
Initial Sprained Ankle Treatment
Following the initial sprain, you’re bound to have some swelling, pain and possibly bruising if you came down with enough force on your ankle. These are all very normal signs that your body has undergone some sort of trauma and is attempting to recover. While your body does it’s best to fix your ankle on its own, we need to provide some help in the healing process for everything to come full-circle.
Rehabilitation is where you’ll regain most of your ankle strength, which will involve stretching, massage and corrective exercises, but first, we need to deal with the swelling and pain.
Hydrotherapy is a very important piece to the puzzle, and should we utilized the same day as your injury. This technique will begin to ease swelling, and pull in nutrient-rich blood to begin the healing and restrengthening process.
