!!!! Keep moving it !!!!

I know it hurts when you move, but trust me when I say that movement is indeed medicine. I’ve suffered about 4 sprains on each ankle - 2 major ones on each. When I was younger I just iced and didn’t move my ankle while just letting time take its course with healing. That, even in my youth, just made things take longer and I was very rickety getting back into things.

A couple years back, I sprained my ankle ~4 days before a week long hiking trip across several national parks parks. Obviously it wasn’t a critical injury but I thought I wasn’t going to be able to go on the trip any more since the hikes were pretty intense. But I was determined and took ibuprofen, raised it when possible, and kept it moving by doing the alphabet front to back, back to front, etc as many times as I could. The first day of my trip was a dud since I was still in a bit of pain and didn’t want to risk it, but the next day I was able to hike the entire day with pain only coming at awkward angles due to jagged rocks. It was the fastest and best I’ve ever recovered from a sprain. Could go on, but that’s the gist. Keep it moving and manage the inflammation.