People who like sports often encounter joint sprains, especially ankle sprains are particularly common, ankle sprains are also one of the most common clinical diseases in orthopedic hospitals, most ankle sprains are mild to moderate ligament tears, very few patients will have ankle fractures or other more serious lesions, is there any effect of using ankle braces after ankle sprains? What are the most effective ways to treat ankle sprains?

Ankle protection is a relatively common sports protector, ankle protection through the pressure of the ankle joint, the ankle joint plays a certain protective role, it is also a relatively light foot ankle protection orthosis, ankle protection can effectively limit the ankle left and right activities, to prevent ankle inversion caused by sprains, if the ankle joint has been sprained, the use of ankle protection can also make the injured part of the pressure increase, strengthen the ankle joint soft tissue injury healing. However, the time to wear the ankle pad every day should not be too long, and the elasticity of the choice of ankle pad should be moderate to avoid poor blood circulation and cause local tissue necrosis.

After the ankle sprain, in addition to the use of local fixation methods to treat, doctors will generally recommend the use of a cast or stent to fix the ankle joint mild valgus neutral position, the fixation period is about 3 to 6 weeks, during the fixation period to avoid swelling of the affected limb, while avoiding walking on the ground, if 3 to 6 weeks after good recovery, you can remove the cast and muscle training, after the removal of the cast about half a year or so can resume normal physical exercise.

When the ankle joint is just injured, corresponding measures should be taken to relieve pain, such as braking, ice packing, pressure bandaging, elevation of the affected limb, etc., just injured when a good first aid can also shorten the course of treatment, but also to promote and alleviate joint injuries, during the joint ankle injury can also massage the local skin, so that blood circulation should be accelerated, while eating more high-calcium food.