What is the difference between twisting your ankle and spraining your ankle?

Question

which one is easier to heal and how do you treat it?

Answer 1

A sprain is worse. When you sprain your ankle, you have torn ligaments. The pain, recovery time, and long term impact from a sprain is very bad. A sprain is actually worse than a break.

Twisting is more of a generic term that in which the concequences are not identified. As an example, twisting your ankle can cause a sprain.

Answer 2

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 3

A sprain is an injury to a ligament. A twisted ankle is a kind of sprain.

Answer 4

Usually refers to the same type of injury, but to different connective tissue. a twist usually a tendon - muscle to bone or muscle to muscle, and a sprain, a ligament, bone to bone. These are layman terms and can be used to cover many different things, or some people use the terms interchangably. Its soft tissue damage. Healing time depends on the location. Usually within 3 - 4 days both will heal. Best treatment is rest.

If you injure a tendon in your ankle, usually better in 3 days if you use crutches and brace it. If you injure your ACL, you'll likely end up in surgery some day. Also depends on the severity of the damage.