What To Do When Sprained?

Sprains are injuries of the joints, most commonly ligaments, often occur after a strong impact such as slipping while running or walking, due to falls, accidents, heavy labor ...
Sprain is the situation like?
The joints often injured sprains are ankles, knees, wrists, shoulders .

.. Patients do not have the wrong joints or broken bones. Lesions also often occur in athletes, women wearing high heels .



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When sprained, the patient feels a sharp pain like electric shock in the twisted joint area, after that, the numbness joint no longer hurts ..
About 1 hour later, the feeling of pain gradually returned. If gently flipped the joint like it was during an injury, the patient will feel a sting like an electric shock, swelling around the joint.
Sprain usually divided into 3 levels:
Level 1: Ligament stretches only a little, is considered mild
Grade 2: Partially torn ligament, severe sign
Level 3: Ligament is completely broken, very severe signs.
Need to handle sprains properly to recover quickly and avoid unfortunate consequences
How to handle a sprain?
- Prescribe or gently raise the affected area.




Apply ice or cold water to the sore joint. This will reduce pain and reduce swelling. Cool the sprained area for 10-15 minutes.
- Use roll tape or cloth, elastic bandage with sprained joints. This will help reduce pain, reduce swelling and support the area.
- Call for medical assistance and make sure the injured spinal area is safe until assistance is given.
Mistakes when handling sprains
Sprains are one of the most common injuries and will have many consequences if not treated properly.
However, in reality, most patients are often subjective with this injury and do not adhere to proper treatment.




The patient's perception is often very subjective when a sprained body thinks that a sprain is not important, thus leading to a mistake in self-treatment.
Using alcohol, rubbing the wounded area high, this is a serious mistake because ligament damage prohibits the use of hot substances acting on the spot because these substances cause stronger bleeding.
While this injury requires the use of drugs that cause cold and local pain relief. Heated substances should only be used in case of fractures because the effect of heat will increase fluid secretion, blood faster healing. But absolutely should not rub the damaged ligament because it can lead to muscle atrophy, stiffness later.
To prevent sprains, avoid long steps because of easy to slip and prone to spinal injury, ligament rupture; Be cautious when playing sports, wearing high heels ...



Should wear knee joints, ankle cover when exercising badly. Every day should practice the exercises to increase tonic muscles around the ankles, knees, wrists ....

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