The sprain
Hayden’s identity card is ready for collection, but I have yet to collect for him because I have a sprained ankle on the right foot. You know, it is quite a distance away from the open air carpark to the Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara collection counter. Therefore, no rush.
It had been so many years since the last injury caused by sport, until the last Tuesday. I was joining the colleagues for badminton. I had a pair of new shoe pads, they are thicker than the orginal pads and they consist of multiple holes for ventilation. The nightmare came when I first tried the pads on the court. My movement had been heavily affected by the thickness, and the stability wasn’t good due to the ventilation holes. In the last jump for a powerful smash, the body slid to a side slightly. When I landed, the right foot was not in the proper landing position. Plus the 87.5 kg of weight, the inappropriate landing caused a disaster to me. Then I heard something like breaking a branch and immediately I was seen on the floor yelling of pain.
The first thing came to my mind was,”Shit, how can I play in the basketball match next week?”. The Carlsberg Cup tournament is starting next week, as usual, I will be playing for the home team.
Right after the sprain, I went home and stuffed the injured foot into a pail with full of ice cubes. After half an hour in the cold, I went for a bathe, and applied the Chinese orthopedic medicine on it. In the last two days, I rested at home, I tried not to walk much as pressure on the sprained ankle will not help for recovery.
As expected, now, the pain has gone so much and the ankle has little swollen only. When you sprain your ankle or any part of your body, if you are sure of no fracture or no misalignment of joints, you do not need to look for a “tit dar” sinseh because most of them will become a “sin kah” to you instead. All you need is to apply the medicine on your own for two days, try not to use or move the injured part too much before the pains gone, and you will be recovering very soon. You do not need to be on diet. If the folks ask you not to eat this and that, basically you can ignore them.
Didn’t know about the sprain. KH had the same when he played basketball some time ago, and he forgot about the cold compress. Immediately he went to titdar and there gone his ankle. A few months still swollen, even until now still bad.
And then, learnt from that, when another friend KC sprained it exactly the same way (like yours as well), KH helped to use cold compress (but we just put ice pack, should have thought of your way!). The next day he was like nothing, but to be on safe side, he too try not to move much for a week, and he is completely okay now.
My knee took me 4-5 months to heal, Because of no old compress. I tried to be heroin too much lah! Dai sei. :p
Suzette,
ice pack is the easy way, ice pack can be found anywhere and it helps too.
If we are at home, to soak the ankle into iced-water is the best way. The professional atheletes use iced-water for injuries. But do remember not to soak for more than 15 mins in one go as it may ‘freeze’ the tissues.