How do professional athletes recover from ankle sprains so quickly?

Answer 1

1. They have the best professional trainers, facilities and equipment to speed their rehabilitation.

2. They tend to get IMMEDIATE care for these injuries- ice those injuries on the sidelines right away, unlike normal people who might try to ignore it, thinking it's not so bad until it swells up overnight.

3. Being pro football players, they have a much higher tolerance for pain than normal weekend warrior. They can sprint on a leg that most people wouldn't even be able to stand on.

Even with all of those advantages, some sprains keep them out for weeks or even months. It all depends on the injury.

Answer 2

Its technically not possible to recover from a sprained ankle quickly if you are an athlete. I was a competitive figure skater for 12 years and I sprained both of my ankles at least 3 times each because they had never properly healed. As an athlete it was impossible for me to just rest up and stay off the ice for the time i was told that i should have. Instead i decreased my activity level (somewhat), went to physiotherapy, and had my ankle tapped up at all time. While it did "heal" quickly (say a couple of weeks), it never actually fully healed, thus making it more likely to resprain it in the future. I would say while it appears professional athletes make speady recoveries, they are more apt to resprain it in the future as well.

Answer 3

I badly sprained my ankle about 3 weeks ago. I was in a hurry going down the stairs, lost my balance and landed on a bad side of my left foot, causing my left ankle to be stretched going on the inside. The first 48 hours were excruciating and the pain was un-believable. I've never had a serious ankle injury before.

So I immediately treated it using the RICE method. The following day, the bruising and swelling were so horrible. I found out that I got a second degree sprain and immediately panicked after that. I had a football game on that week and it been looking forward to it because I've been training for rt. I had teammates that had similar injuries and it took them months to fully recover, some of them stopped playing altogether. So I kinda had a short-term depression because I can't imagine myself not being able to run and play sports anymore.

Because I was so desperate to recover again, I contacted a lot of people that I know who do sports and asked them if they had similar injuries. One friend of mine, from the boy's football team in my university, told me about H.E.M. Ankle Rehab. I got a copy 4 days after I got injured. I immediately read and followed what was instructed and felt improvement on the first day. I was able to walk a bit, but I was in pain.

A couple of days after that, the swelling and bruising were subsid-ing significantly and on the fourth day, I was walking comfortably again. Although I've had felt a bit of stiffness, I continued doing what was instructed. My sister was surprised that I have recovered this fast. I told her about this book and was shocked on how effective the procedures were. I'm just so happy that this book was shared to me and how effective it is.

Heal your ankle fully & fast?

Answer 4

No such element as therapeutic speedy...sprained ankles take a minimum of four-6 wks to completely heal, although you will sense generally painfree in 2-3 wks. in case you opt for to exact guard the ankle and help the therapeutic technique alongside then you definately would desire to take a seat back for the subsequent 3-4 wks, and ice conventional for 15 minutes until there is not any swelling contained in the ankle. you are going to be stated to ascertain a actual therapist to bolster your now weakened ankle muscle groups and to re-prepare your stability. no longer doing so will leave you with an volatile ankle companies to destiny sprains.

Answer 5

I sprained my ankle almost every game in high school and i played football basketball and soccer. The more often I did it the less time it took. my first hurt bad but after a few times I hardly noticed. any good athlete that plays alot should be almost immune to pain from sprains.

Answer 6

They REST, and they do the other stuff - ice, compression, elevation ... pain relief, etc.

but they rest

they get paid to rest and to recover well so they can represent their sponsors again

they get good physiotherapy

Answer 7

probably cuz they got all professionals giving them the BEST suggestions on how to heal it. Then they got Pro's giving them physical therapy to get the fastest recovery.