It happens to us all - the dread ankle sprain. Thankfully, this is not me now, but a couple of years ago when I sprained my ankle pretty badly while staying at a cottage in Snowdonia.
Never having had such a sprain before, I was pretty shocked at how much my ankle swelled up. I used a makeshift ice pack (bag of frozen peas wrapped over a towel), and spent the evening elevating my foot. The swelling was about half the size the following day, which was amazing.
I spent a week on a crutch just to help ease the compressive load through the ankle, by which time the bruising came out -this is 2 weeks after the event - still resembling the Elephant Man slightly!
I went to A&E just to check I didnt have an avulsion fracture (type of fracture where soft tissue pulls away part of the bone it attaches to), but all clear there fortunately. All in all it took about 3 weeks for the swelling and bruising to die down, during which time I was sensible and rescheduled appointments. I went for Sports Massages to help minimise scar tissue. I spent a lot of time standing on one leg (the injured ankle) to re-gain proprioception.
Looking at my ankle now, you would never know I injured it so badly - in fact, if anything, it is the other ankle, which I have never sprained or injured, that everts and could do with some attention.
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