Strapping your ankles

[Elyepsm]

I have had an ongoing injury to my ankle for a few years now, I tore the ligaments in it a few years back plus sprained the same ankle about 18 months ago. Its not easy to run without strapping it up but sometimes when I remove the strapping my ankle gives me alot of grief and I find it hard to walk and limp for the rest of the day, especially if I sit down for half an hour and get up to walk again, or when I wake up and walk its at its worst and I limp real bad until my ankle warms up a bit?
Is there anyone who has been through this before and may be able to give me some advice on how to cope with it better??? Would physio help too???

[Q]

I used to have pretty bad ankles at one stge I used to sprain them just walking let alone running, then I was how to strap them properly and did that for a year or so each and every time I did any sort of training. After a while I started training without strapping and now I dont strap at all.

[Dynamite Drew]

have a look here : http://www.elastoplastsport.com.au/Injury/TapingTechniques.aspx

lots of info

[Rico]

Hi Elyepsm, I have similar but minor pains with my ankles however about 2 weeks ago I sprained my ankle very severly to the extent I couldn't even walk on it for about 2 days. The physio was a great help, I was back at training literally in days. I would highly recomend going to a good physio, they have all these tools like balancing boards and a whole lot more tools to help strengthen the ankle.

Make sure that if you do visit a physio, you go to a good one however I strongly reccomend going, even if its just to find out what exercises you should do to strenthen the muscles around the ligaments.

[gvmartialarts]

Yep, physio will show you how to do it properly and give you good advice (only if they are a good physio of course).

I am always twisting and hurting my ankles, and I have a great way to strap them up whenever the need arises. The site Dynamite Drew put up is very good also

[Dynamite Drew]

quote:Originally posted by Sor.NakSooMuayThai
The site Dynamite Drew put up is very good also



thanks

[LeewkMT]

what is the site?

[Dynamite Drew]

lee , in the 1st post i made in this thread