Hi everyone,

I sprained my ankle playing football a month ago. The first week and a half I used crutches intermittently, iced it, rested it and compressed it. Now I am walking on it more than I have been pain free but there is no way of going back to exercising as the flexibility in the ankle joint is poor and I still get a lot of pain if I am on my feet for too long or if I go into a squat position for example. I can provide pictures if that would help? The bruising was very bad initially and now it is just still very swollen. I have had an x ray to rule out any fractures, doctors were pretty useless, just said rest and ibuprofen for a week which I did and no change.

I had a friend who is a trainee osteopath check it out and she thinks that it has a lot of scar tissue around the joint, (it is on the lateral side, but there is also a small amount of swelling and pain on the medial side) and advised me to see a physio to get some friction massage to try and break down the scar tissue. I have been lots of stretches and balancing on the injured leg to try and get some of the flexibility back and strengthen my ligament. I normally weight train 5 x a week and haven't done so in a month now. It is really beginning to frustrate me! I have also had to take time off work as I'm a bartender and am meant to be going back in a week but nothing has really changed i.e. it still hurts.

Basically I would like to know:
a)should I be putting weight through the previously injured ankle?
b)is it worth going to the physio or should I just wait it out?
c) is the physio the best person to go to or should I consider a sports massage/massage therapist?

any help is appreciated

Thanks in advance

Rob

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