High heels and sprained ankles!!
Fit Girl | Jul 13, 2010 | Comments 0
Ok girls, let me break it down to you!! So you’ve been engaging in your fave sport, and some wench has gone and tripped you over so that you land on the floor with a thud, but not before your ankle has taken a twist in the wrong direction and you find yourself with a little sprain!! OUCH!! Now just to clarify, a sprain is a tear to your ligaments, the fibrous tissue that attaches bone to bone and provides you with stability. Muscle tears are strains. (Now you can wow a cute doctor boy with your anatomy knowledge!!) So anyway, you’ve gone over on your ankle and it hurts!! Most ankle sprains are usually on the outside of your ankle, and you will have torn at least one of three main ligaments just underneath your ankle bone. Depending on the severity of the sprain, it can take from a couple of weeks (a minor tear) to 3 months (that baby got damaged!!) Now, you’ll know if it’s major as you will have spent some time in the hospital and you won’t be walking on that bad boy. If however it is minor, it’s likely that it’s swollen, tender to touch, and will bruise a few days later. Now let me intervene with a little medical know how, if you go over on your ankle, apply ice as soon as you can, rest up, and keep it elevated!! This will reduce inflammation and get you on the road to recovery. So as mentioned before, thine ligaments are stabilisers, so when you are trotting in heels your ligaments are supporting you. If you attempt to wear heels shortly after an ankle sprain you’re just going to go back to square one!! Yes that happened to my dear friend, she knows who she is. She was defiant in the face of her sprain, such was her desperation to get back into her heels and was presented with a painful, bruised, re-tear of her ligaments!! What did that mean for her? Back to the flats and no heels for a while!!
Here’s how to check if your post-sparin anle is heel worthy:
1. Is there any heat in the area when you touch it with the back of your hand? If so, it’s still inflamed, no heels for you!!
2. Is there any visible swelling? If so, no heels for you!!
3. Can you balance on your injured foot without holding onto anything or standing on your other foot? If so, the heels ain’t feelin’ it!!
4. If you raise up onto your toes on both feet and you feel slight discomfort, no heels for thee!
5. If you raise up onto your toes of your injured foot and you feel slight discomfort, put the heels down!!
Make sure you seek help from a physical therapist if you are unsure or need rehabilitative exercises. But if in doubt, no heels girls, fashion has afforded us other ways to look cute in times of heel-free wardrobe crises!!
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