Topic: Air Cast

[FreeStyleFox]

Ok, last friday I spraind my ankle a good one.  I know I have a long road a head of me but.  He cleared me for *gymantices* in a week wearing the air cast.  Has any one else had to do this?

[psycosis12]

no, but today i learned in chemistry that i get punched by air

[Argon]

I would stay off it for a bit longer, you don't want to risk permanently damaging your ankles, and parkour tends to be a bit rougher than gymnastics on the knees and ankles. I didn't do this the first time I sprained my ankle, and I sprained it a second time very quickly. I had to stay off it for a week solid, and didn't do any parkour for more than a month :' (

[twitchkidd]

def, let your ankle heal. i've messed up my ankle a good one for not letting it

[Gearsighted]

psycosis, pleast stop posting just for the sake of staying inside on the computer as opposed to actually going out an training. If you don't have anything useful to say, please abstain.

As for the original question, I sprained my ankle about 3 weeks ago. I took a good week off completely before starting back into basic workouts with a sturdy brace. I was completely off of Parkour training for over 2 weeks, and when I did come back I was very careful with what I did. It's been over three weeks now and it's still unstable, so I keep it braced for training but not workouts or everyday walking around, etc.

Just be careful and do what you can. Don't take it too fast. Good luck.

[FreeStyleFox]

LMAO psycosis got pwned.  Its kool gear when he replys to my posts in what ever way he does.  He is a freind of mine and its his way of telling me that he reads them.  But he does need to train more, even tho he does take breaks through out the day to train and hour here and an hour there.

[Gearsighted]

That's fine, but the post isn't just for your benefit, but also for the thousands of people who might eventually read it, and when they make it to his reply they'll think "Damn, APK just has a bunch of annoying kids that talk about random crap instead of providing useful answers to people's queries...I guess I'll go to the freestyle knitting forum..."

 

[Bubblemaker]

well.... thousands?

Excuse me for my useless post 

[FreeStyleFox]

This coversation does both for me makes me long to be on the mend and makes me lol.

[Ken PKChiro]

hey, , so basically, i dont know what the gymantics thing is, but it sounds like a decent idea.  like i told the other guy, just get some movement in the joint passively.  also if you know your anatomy, a lot of times, reaccurent sprains/strains, are from your muscle begin inhibited neurologically after an injury.  the rubbing, (afferent stimulation) of the insertion and origin of the muslce is a very effective technique.  just rub with a non-directioinal force over the 4 major anke stablilizing muscles Insertion origins.  (peronius longus/brevis, tib anterior, tib post, per. tertius)

[FreeStyleFox]

can you get us a digram??

and my akilies tendon is realy tight sence the sprain ... any reson why that could be?  when i do leaps or realy have to spring hard from a jump i get this realy sharp pain there.

[Ken PKChiro]

diagram... heh, id recommend just looking it up, there are resources on the internet everywhere.  just follow the pics .  as for your achilles tendon, its possible (hard to say unless im there to diagnose you) that the injury you sustained injured the tib ant muscle primarly.  what happens to the antagonistic muscles (the soleus and gastroc) which attach through the achilles tendon, is that with a weak tib anterior, it goes tight.  make sense?  so if it is tight, it bunches up, and when you leap or impact, its already contracted, so you strain it  .  so i would generally (again, trying, but tough to give advice over the i-net) rub the tib anterior muscle mainly, and stretch out the achilles muscles (also, get someone to rub with a broad contact from the heel upwards the body on the triceps surae (soleus/gastroc) muscles)  that will definately help the hypertonicity.  anyway, good luck. 

[PrincessPK]

Sprained my ankle a while ago too... Had to keep off parkour for about 5 days and then I gradually started back. Guess I got lucky and it wasn't too bad... I played tennis on it after three days with a solid taping and it was all good.

[FreeStyleFox]

Mine was alot worse... I coldn't pk realy for three weeks.  And thats with a brace.