• neidu2@feddit.nl
    6·
    4 months ago

    Depends how badly you injured yourself to begin with. But usually you can walk relatively fine after a week or two with some discomfort. Still need to take it easy, though. After about a month or two it’ll be as if nothing happened. Unless you’re over 40, in which case it’ll never really heal properly.

      • NoneYa@lemm.ee
        3·
        4 months ago

        Go easy on it and don’t rush the healing process.

        I sprained my ankle a few years ago and was impatient. The ball of my ankle still has not fully returned like it used to or how it is on my other ankle and I sometimes can feel it moving in odd ways. About a year later, I jumped from a small ledge in my backyard and the intense pain returned as if I had sprained it again. I may have, I’m not sure.

        But it was because I kept walking on it instead of using the crutches and keeping it up as much as possible.

        It sucks not to be able to use your limbs, but it’s temporary if you let the healing process take its course.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 months ago

    There’s a few factors here, how badly you sprained it, exactly what parts of your ankle are injured and how they’re injured, your age, genetics, fitness level, diet, pain tolerance, how active you are, etc.

    Some very minor sprains can pretty much just be walked off and you can continue life as usual with just some minor discomfort and no one but you would ever know you’re injured. Other more sever sprains can take weeks or months, if it turns out that something is torn it may even require surgery.

    Somehow, I’ve avoided significantly spraining my ankle, which is a small miracle for someone who hikes as much as I do, never had anything I couldn’t just walk off and be back to 100% in a couple days, but I have sprained my knee pretty badly, and I was pretty much out of commission for a week hobbling around on crutches with my leg immobilized, then a few more weeks limping around with a cane, after that I was able to get around normally but I could tell that my knee wasn’t quite right for probably about a year afterwards, and now even about a decade down the line, sometimes when the weather is just wrong and I’ve been using my knee in certain ways, I can still kind of feel echoes of that injury, not that it hurts i can just feel that its not quite the same as it was.

  • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl
    23·
    4 months ago

    2-3 hours, with some pain relievers.

    natural recovery is very dependent on how active you were before the accident, how young you are and how often you do stretchings particularly on the ankle muscles.

    also some placebo could help.

    'tis but a flesh wound

    – black knight