#sprained ankle tw

[penandswords]

Rima is sitting with her ankle propped up. A nice little brace wrapped around it.

There's no pain anymore.

[skeletonpendeja]

I didn't think I was this out of shape

[chaotic-average-child]

getting back on my drawing slowly but surely ^^ here's an aleena

[sleepydolliez]

Ayyy guess who just got out of the er?!

Gotta walk around with these bad boys for a while

I just wanted to go to the kitchen to get my leftover brownies and I ended up in the er for 7 hours with a sprained ankle 😭

[pulledrounder]

Julien Baker, Go Home // Phoebe Bridgers, Chinese Satellite

[sneeg-snag]

thought about dnd character too hard and beefed it in the parking lot outside my house and sprained my ankle 😔

[in-love-with-writing-whump]

Save Me From The Storm: Part One/? - A Hypothermia Miniseries

*I want to make OCs specific to this miniseries, as none of my current OCs really fit these tropes the way I want them to. In a follow-up, I'll give them names with a key at the beginning including names & pronouns*

Whumpee frowned as the gray sky let a stray snowflake land on their face. They'd spent most of the morning out here in the woods, looking for that stupid bird's nest. A had wanted Whumpee to mark its location with flagging tape for them so they could find it again for surveys, as the last time they were out in the woods, A had gotten lost, and Caretaker had needed to send out a search party to find them.

Though as Whumpee looked around the forest, they couldn't blame them. This part of the woods was nearly impossible to navigate, and with the lack of sunlight, it was difficult to see which path led where.

Whumpee shook their head. This was getting pointless. The sky smelt like a storm, and they weren't one to ignore their instincts. They started making their way back towards the entrance of the forest.

They barely had time to scream as their ankle connected with the gnarled root, sending them sprawling to the ground. Their head collided with a small rock, the impact sending them reeling.

They blinked slowly, grimacing as they pressed a hand to their head. Their fingers came away bloody, and they winced at the flash of pain. Whumpee sat upright, struggling to stand. The moment they put weight on their ankle, they cursed filthily. They definitely sprained it, and they wouldn't be surprised if they did a number on their head too.

Using a nearby tree to help them up, they struggled to reorient themself. Which way had they come in again?

As the snow began to dust the forest floor, Whumpee found themself limping at an agonizing pace, occasionally calling out for Caretaker as their blood stained the white snow red.

***

A burst into Caretaker's room, eyes blown wide. "A, what is it?"

"I sent Whumpee our looking for that nest for me this morning, and they haven't come back yet."

Caretaker's heart skipped a beat as they looked to the blizzard outside. They grabbed their coat and made their way to the door. "Come on, A, let's go find them."

'Hang in there, Whumpee. I'll be there soon.'

[cassieloveswhump]

Ankle injury prompt

Okay so Whumpee has escaped and is now fleeing from Whumper. Fun! Except they’re so tired and hungry and in pain that they can’t stop trembling, and the ground is pretty uneven. So they step wrong and twist their ankle. It hurts, and from what Whumpee can see through their tattered pants it’s swelling, but Whumper is just behind them, so they can’t stop running, no matter how much their ankle hurts.

Bonus points if Whumpee has an old injury in that ankle already.

This may or may not be inspired by me.

[sinners-go-to-drink-the-wine]

I'm gonna live blog my julien doscography listen through even though no one cares

Sprained Ankle, Audiotree & Spotify live session down!

Go Home is still my favorite 💔

"So lock all the cabinets and send me to bed '

Cause I know you're still worried, I'm gonna get scared again

And make my insides clean with your kitchen bleach"

[the-pov-of-a-teenage-girl]

Girl show us pics. (I promise I aint one of them feetsy fetish weirdos LMFAOOOAOOS)

Y’all mad weird for asking 4 pics but ok. Imma crop my toes out LMFAOOO

[paint-my-misery]

Funny how ive gotten most of my injuries by being an idiot.

As a kid I got a concussion by roller skating outside while it was raining, slipped on some gravel and cracked my skull against a concrete wall because I wasn’t wearing my helmet right.

I sprained my ankle as a tween while kicking a ball back and forth with my brother because my foot caught on the ground and i tripped over the ball and promptly twisted my ankle.

I cut some of the skin on my thumb off because I was trying to clean a razor by running my thumb along the blade

I cracked a tooth in half while roughhousing with my sister at a waterpark

And I once sliced the skin open on my hand with a knife because I was carving a pumpkin and was too impatient to wait for my mom to get back, and my hand slipped and i sustained one of the worst and deepest cuts I’d ever gotten, there was blood everywhere. My mom didn’t even take me to the hospital because she was worried the stitches they’d put in would make the scarring ugly.

And most other bruises and cuts and burns i get by just being an oblivious idiot

[outta-trouble]

top times i remember to have fucked my right foot up

(in chronological order)

1). That one time when i was running outside with my sisters and i somehow managed to push a table and a motorbike mudguard fell of getting my shoelaces and making me shit my ankle up (4 to 5 years old)

2). When i was running and i stepped on a iron pipe (one that for the record should've already been removed) and i face firsted onto the ground, almost spraining my ankle (6-7 years old)

3). For context, there was a time where my sister liked exotic skateboards, and she had brought one that only had two wheels and a thing in the center that rotated, so you had to be like when cartoon characters went rolling of a cliff on top of a barrel.

I'll add a image later

Well anyway, guess who was so lazy to put shoes on and fell off the thing.

Yes, me.

I spent 3-4 weeks jumping on one feet and after that i couldn't do long walks (+3 hours) without feeling that my ankle would drop my feet off for around 4-5 months.

4). my mom and me were carrying a piece of furniture and we got to the house gate. For side note we have a divided house and my family on the other side of the house have 2 dogs, and we have 1 dog. They're so dang wild so we had to get the thing in without letting them out.

In the middle of this, we weren't paying attention and then boom

The thing falls right onto my big toe and breaks my nail and a bit of skin on the side, obviously bleeding.

Uhh ik this was an incident but still kinda fuck off bcs this happened 2 days ago and it still hurts like a bitch. (14 yo, two days ago)

[autismvampyre]

i sprained my ankle yesterday but i also had a show and the show must go on so i didn't take it easy at all and now the side of my foot has swollen to the size of a tennis ball. fun!

[daughtersofferrix]

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[fletcherwilbury]

@febuwhump Day 3: "Bite down on this."

Warning for Canon-typical violence, past physical violence, sprained ankle, amateur medical care

[alianoralacanta]

Take sprains seriously, especially if they’re ankles. There are many good support options if the sprain type is correctly diagnosed in the first few days, and late diagnosis is still better than never. Most forms of sprained ankle can be investigated at an urgent treatment centre in the UK, instead of requiring a full-blown hospital visit or pre-assessing by a GP (although both of those are good options in some circumstances). Methods of obtaining appropriate care for a sprain will of course vary depending on where one lives. First aid for a suspected sprain (which should be continued until diagnosis): - Rest (get some other body part to take your weight, and use something to help support you when moving around) - Ice (no more than 10 minutes at a time; something else cold will do, but make sure there’s a cloth or other fabric separating the cold thing from direct body contact) - Comfort (if it hurts/hurts more, adjust until it doesn’t hurt/hurts less, and support with an elasticated bandage or similar) - Elevate (so blood doesn’t pool in the sprain and body weight goes through something else. Even a little bit higher than some other part of the body, properly supported, is helpful). If none of these improve the situation within an hour, you were already recovering from an injury to that part of the body or the circumstances are such that a bone break or other injuries are suspected, get medical advice (most of the time, if you’re in the UK, calling 111 - the non-emergency medical line - is a good start. Check the local non-emergency procedure if you are elsewhere). Along with the diagnosis, you need knowledge, you need a plan and you need patience. A good graduated plan (as opposed to going from 100% rest to 100% action) can make a big difference to how well your ankle will support you in the future. Consider doing balancing training/exercise of some sort even if you have never injured your ankles/feet. If you have injured the ankles/feet, then get medical supervision for your exercise plan (or if that’s impossible, at least tell your trainer and have an open discussion about it). Balance training when young makes it easier to maintain balance when old, and properly-adapted training will make it less likely to sprains/twists/similar to recur if you’ve had some already. The three things that most often stop old people living independently are brain issues (e.g. dementia), heart trouble (e.g. angina) and balance issues (the most common of which is ankle instability). Of those, balance is the most-easily overlooked, and if 20% of ankle sprains lead to ankle instability, that’s a lot of people who would benefit from medical support of their ankles. A good physiotherapist can advise on this if going to a general doctor or a hospital first seems daunting.

If I could give one piece of life advice to my fellow humans, it would be this highly specific little chestnut: "If you ever sprain your ankle, get medical care."

One of the most common things I've heard from older people than myself is, "Oh yeah, I twisted my ankle in (insert grade of school here) and it's never been the same." Or, "I have a bad ankle. I can't tell you how many times I've sprained it." And one of the most common things I've heard from younger people is some variation on, "Yeah, I think I just twisted my ankle. I think I have some old crutches from high school at my parents' house. I'll just use those for a few days."

I didn't learn this until after I sprained my ankle last year, but 20% of ankle sprains lead to chronic ankle instability, which was grimly defined by my doctor as, "an unending cycle of ankle sprains."

Another thing I didn't fully understand is that "sprain" is an umbrella term for any of those ligament injuries. Yeah, you could simply stretch the ligament-- twist it. Or you could tear it. Or you could completely sever it, and those are all sprains. If you're not a doctor, it's likely hard to tell what degree of sprain you have. The worse the sprain, the higher the chance of it healing weird and becoming unstable. If you are having trouble putting weight on your ankle and it's not feeling better the next day, please get it checked out!

I know medical care is expensive and many of us don't have health insurance, but it might cost you more in the long run if you don't get care for a hurt ankle. Otherwise you might spend a lifetime of having to get MORE ankle injuries checked out, missing work or social opportunities due to ankle injury, having to limit exercise, surgeries later in life, and more.

When I hurt my ankle and foot last year, I assumed the broken foot bone would be the bigger concern, but my treatment plan was almost entirely centered around the ankle ligament tear. My doctor said that was the more serious injury and the more finicky bit to heal. I worry when I hear a friend mention they sprained their ankle and were just treating it at home, 'trying to stay off it as much as I can.' That usually means a few days, but I had to stay completely off mine for 4 weeks, followed by a walking boot, a brace, and months of physical therapy. It was intense!

Ankles are annoying because they support your entire darn body and you don't realize how much you need them until you hurt one. So that is the one nugget of wisdom I hope to leave all of you with!