Rest Alone Will Not Heal a Sprained Ankle
H.E.M. - Rehab your Sprained Ankle in days.
Introducing
H.E.M. - The simple and extraordinarily effective system
that teaches
you how to rehab your ankle in days instead of weeks.
| Major benefits of H.E.M. |
 | Pain free walking in days |
| Back to sports in about a week |
| Increases strength & flexibility |
| Heals neuromuscular damage |
| Reduces risk of future injury |
| Helps correct muscle imbalances |
| Reduces knee, hip, & back pain |
| Simple... takes minutes a day |
Thousands of people from all walks of life twist and
sprain their ankles every day. Whether you tripped on a sidewalk or
landed on someone else's foot in a basketball game, a sprained ankle is
one of the most common injuries around. Of course, everyone knows they
typical advice: R.I.C.E. (Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation). In
other words, most people will advise you to just lay in bed as much as
possible and ice your ankle until the swelling goes down and you can
walk again. Fortunately, a new understanding of the body reveals this
is not the best way to heal such an injury. In order to understand
why, you need to know a little bit more about how the body works.When
you have an injury, the body immediately tries to protect that area to
prevent further injury. Inflammation is one of the body's best ways to
protect the injured area from further movement and harm. So, in the
case of ankle sprain, you will find a lot of inflammation, which means
you will barely be able to move your ankle at all as the joint swells
up to a softball. And it will take many weeks if not months for the
inflammation to slowly decrease enough for you to walk normally again.
But, as the inflammation decreases, another phenomenon will occur.
Your body will produce scar tissue around the injury. Your body does
this to help strengthen and protect the weakened joint from future
injury. This is the body's natural response to injury if you just rest.
But,
there are a number of problems with the natural healing process left to
itself. One, it takes a very long time. Inflammation goes down very,
very slowly and does not readily allow for the flow of fresh blood and
nutrients into the injured area. It is also very hard to remove the
waste from the cells in the injured area. So, although the
inflammation protects the area from movement, it takes a great deal
more time to heal the injury, because the ligaments and cells cannot
get fresh blood and nutrients and also cannot remove waste
efficiently. In other words, the inflammation blocks the free flow of
healthy blood into the area as well as blocking the free flow of waste
products produced from the injury out of the body. In addition, the
development of scar tissue inhibits the movement of a joint, which
means that in the future, your joint will be much less flexible and
capable of strengthening itself.
In a nut shell, the body, if
left to just rest, will heal itself as best it can, but will actually
keep your ankle weak and inflexible which puts it at greater risk of
injury in the future. So, here is how the body generally heals itself
if left on its own:
1) Inflammation response - to protect the
area from further injury which is very slow to fully heal and reduces
the flow of blood and fresh nutrients into the area.
2) Produces
scar tissue around the injury to help protect the injured area in the
future, but also dramatically reduces flexibility and strength in the
joint.
Rehabilitation, on the other hand, still allows the body
to rest most of the day, but also actively moves the joint to help
dramatically reduce the inflammation and avoid the build up of scar
tissue. That means that the ligaments will heal much faster and
better, because they get fresh blood in and can move the waste out.
Also, the movement will help reduce the adhesions developed by scar
tissue which will significantly strengthen your ankle joint and keep it
flexible.
In fact, most people find that with proper
rehabilitation, their ankles are far more flexible and strong then
before they injured their ankles in the first place. Of course, this
puts you at a much lower risk for injuring it again in the future.
Remember, it is not working against the body, just helping the body to
heal more efficiently. Joints that only rest and do not move get rusty
and an injured joint, such as a sprained ankle, needs to continue to be
moved, stretched and strengthened to retain it's flexibility. For
example, if you were to dislocate a finger, your doctor will tell you
to keep moving it (one common exercise is to make a fist and then open
it and spread your fingers out as wide as possible in a sink filled
with warm water). They will explain to you that rehabilitating your
finger is the key to insuring you maintain its flexibility and strength
in the future. But, for some reason, when you twist or sprain an
ankle, everyone just says to rest. It is bizarre that people recognize
that rehab is important for one joint but not another.
So, if
you sprain an ankle, I strongly recommend doing a good rehab program.
I developed a program that specifically works to heal your ankle within
a week by significantly increasing the strength and flexibility in the
joint. It also dramatically reduces inflammation, scar tissue and the
neuromuscular damage done by the injury. Thousands of others
(including professional athletes) have quickly and effectively healed
their ankle injuries with it and I welcome you to learn more about it.
