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JustJess · 05-30-2006, 05:50 AM

NO HEAT. Sorry, that's a misconception. After you work it, you should be icing it.

I wouldn't be running right now. If you tore ligamentS there's no way you should be putting that much pressure on it. Look, you're in school, so that means health insurance, right? You want an ortho guy to be checking your ankle with MRI's, and you want to be doing real rehab/PT. I can tell you how they went about rehabbing mine, and the Jazz can tell you about his, but frankly, you'll screw it up if you do it without someone showing you what to do. This is not a do-it-yourself situation. And learn it well now... once you've done something like this, the stats go way up on your chances of doing it again.

In fact, if you're in the NYC area, come to my hospital. If not, go to any ortho person and get a script for PT. Seriously. I'm really really not kidding. And the longer you try to compensate, the more out of whack you're going to throw the rest of your body. Trust me. A minorly torn ligament in my left ankle, left untreated for 2 months, equalled more rehab for the sciatica I ended up with after being out of balance for that long.

Go go go go go go now.

05-30-2006, 05:50 AM	#3 (permalink)
JustJess Unencapsulated Location: Kittyville	NO HEAT. Sorry, that's a misconception. After you work it, you should be icing it. I wouldn't be running right now. If you tore ligamentS there's no way you should be putting that much pressure on it. Look, you're in school, so that means health insurance, right? You want an ortho guy to be checking your ankle with MRI's, and you want to be doing real rehab/PT. I can tell you how they went about rehabbing mine, and the Jazz can tell you about his, but frankly, you'll screw it up if you do it without someone showing you what to do. This is not a do-it-yourself situation. And learn it well now... once you've done something like this, the stats go way up on your chances of doing it again. In fact, if you're in the NYC area, come to my hospital. If not, go to any ortho person and get a script for PT. Seriously. I'm really really not kidding. And the longer you try to compensate, the more out of whack you're going to throw the rest of your body. Trust me. A minorly torn ligament in my left ankle, left untreated for 2 months, equalled more rehab for the sciatica I ended up with after being out of balance for that long. Go go go go go go now. __________________ My heart knows me better than I know myself, so I'm gonna let it do all the talkin'.