What should I do if my basketball ankle is sprained and swollen?
1. Stop exercising: When you sprain your ankle playing basketball, you should immediately stop running and walking, find a stable place to sit down as soon as possible, and don't use your injured ankle again to avoid more serious injuries.
2. Check the injury: After spraining the ankle, you can sit in the same place and check the injury at the sprained ankle first to see if there is serious ligament damage or fracture, mainly because the ankle is obviously swollen and deformed.
3. Leg lifting: If there is no slight ankle sprain, you can try to lift the injured leg, or use a backpack and other items to pad your feet, which can help venous return, reduce swelling and relieve pain.
4. Ice compress on the affected area: Mild ankle sprain can be relieved by ice compress in time. Ice compress can slow down the blood circulation of the injured part, make the blood vessels contract, and play a role in relieving pain and swelling.
5. Pressure bandage: Under moderate pressure, bandage the injured part with elastic bandage to fix the ankle joint and reduce its movement, which is helpful to reduce exudation and swelling, and can also prevent the injured part from being pulled again to aggravate the injury.
6. Hot compress relief: After playing basketball for 48 hours, you can wrap a hot water bag with a hot towel or towel and apply it to the injured part, which can speed up the local blood circulation, help the blood stasis in the injured part dissipate, and also relieve the pain.
How to deal with emergencies?
The first stage: within 1 hour after sprain. Be sure to rinse the swollen part with cold water, or fill the bag with ice cubes and apply it to the swollen part. This kind of operation can limit the degree of swelling to the greatest extent, which is beneficial to the later recovery.
The second stage: 65438+ 0 -24 hours after sprain. After cold or ice compress, you should lie still or sit still and rest. When you are lying still, lift your ankle, which is higher or parallel to the level of your heart. When sitting quietly, raise your ankles above your waist. At this stage, the sprained part can't be loaded, can't be forced, can't touch hot water, and can't be massaged.
Stage 3: 24 hours after sprain, until the swelling subsides. At this stage, the purpose is to reduce swelling, and there are many surgical methods. If you are in a hurry to recover, you can go to a medical institution with guaranteed sanitary conditions for acupuncture. After acupuncture, the medicine can be coated on gauze, and then the gauze is wrapped around the injured part, and the injured part can be prevented from being invaded by electromagnetic waves with an electromagnetic wave therapeutic apparatus. This operation is beneficial to the absorption of drug effect and the dissipation of swelling.