Exercise injuries
I was walking over to The Wife’s apartment to pick up my Brompton, when my foot twisted and I fell. I was walking a slanting path across a road descending a steep hill, and my left foot twisted as I placed it. I scraped my right knee enough that it bled, but the pants did not tear or even abrade: very tough stuff (Magellan travel pants). The ankle though:
We googled sprains, and learned the RICE technique: Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. The Wife is bringing me an Ace bandage to wrap the sprain, and I’ve used frozen peas for 20 minutes, which I’ll repeat every couple of hours. I am going to see a doctor tomorrow just to check.
Pain in the foot. This is the same ankle I sprained quite severely when I was around 26 or 27: running in place in a hallway, caught my ankle on the wall and landed on the top of my left foot. That one required crutches for several weeks (thus my fond memory of the crutches: without them I would have been immobilized).
Ouch !
The ‘Calcaneo tubular ligament’ no question about it, nice swelling, looks like a slight tear stay of that foot and try not to bend, ACA bandage for sure and be ready for a light cast.
Here is a great website for what you want to see scroll down for a picture of your ankle and diagram of the above ligament and others.
http://www.footankleinstitute.com/ankle-instability/
Good luck !
Nick
10 July 2011 at 2:49 pm
My Pilates teacher had a good regimen: RICE for sure, but the ice part is to fill a bucket (I’m using a plastic trash can) deep enough to cover ankle, add ice to chill it well, and when the ankle is somewhat number, use your big toe to write the letters of the alphabet, which twists the ankle gently this way and that and promotes circulation. I did that for a while, and ankle is wrapped now once more.
Thanks for the link and good wishes.
LeisureGuy
10 July 2011 at 3:21 pm
I guess the triathlon will have to wait….or was this injury a subconscious effort to block the decision to exercise more???
Get well.
Steve
10 July 2011 at 7:56 pm
hahahaha…!!!
But Steve, the big toe is getting a real work out, as well as learning the motions to write as in ‘My left foot’ (daniel day lewis) knowing LG he will be affixing the calligraphy pen to it quite soon.
I hope you get well soon as well, sorry about the jesting !
Nick
10 July 2011 at 8:33 pm