Might as well give it a try! 
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Hope it works. I’m not a doctor so check the packet before you dose yourself with a poisonous level of anti-inflammatories 
I think it was about two weeks I did. It worked anyway. Got to get rid of that residual inflammation 
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Strength work-shit loads of vids on YouTube.
Improved sleep.
Improved diet-whole foods, fruit, veg rich in natural ant inflammatory.
Tumeric tablet every day & maybe a gluecosemine.
Yoga.
Consistency in all of the above. The worst thing you can do is stop once your ankles feel okay. Keep it going and build it into your life. You will find that not only ankles will be better but it will improve other aspects of your health
Again … Consistency.
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I’m wary of vitamin supplements. The majority do nothing more than a placebo effect (glucosamine being a fairly good example). The industry is so unregulated that even if you had one with proven benefits you’d probably end up buying utter crap that just gave you lead poisoning
Think fish oil with omega-3 is one of the few that regularly proves to have a benefit. Vitamin D being another
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Yeah with you.
The only ones I take daily are
B12, Tumeric & Vitamin D but I ditch the vitamin D in the summer months.
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Just echoing what Nozzleboy is saying here @sk8arrog8 do this, it’s absolute gold.
Ate a few mouthfuls of the babies meal (noodles, chicken, peanut butter sauce) and found out the other main ingredient is breast milk
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Mmm luxury milk.
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Car was being a whiny bugger (literally speaking) on my drive home from Cardiff the other night, seemed to be within 1-2k revs and was audibly loud as you were toodling along a slow road. Suspect it’s the alternator bearing, so I’m going to have a look on Thursday.
I hope it’s just the fecking alternator and not something like the turbo.
I’m gonna try this - injured toe playing football a couple of weeks back, rested then played again and did ankle on other foor & it’s not getting any better 
Skating has been okay if just rolling, not much else though (not too different to usual mind)
Being old x cold weather = this
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Getting worried about the legitimacy of my advice now 
I just googled and you’re not supposed to do more than 10 days of ibuprofen really. There’s quite a few differing views out there too. Maybe you should ask your doctor too?
I kept getting the same symptoms a bit like you describe, but it was my ankle. I went to the docs, she said I should take a course of ibuprofen. Might have only been a week thinking about it. Anyway, it worked. Could have been placebo and it was just resting it that worked, but I feel like I’d been resting it beforehand and was getting nowhere.
Anyway, that was about four or five years ago and it was the last bad sprain I have had. Since recovering from that and keeping my activity levels up I’ve been all good!
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It also slows down the healing process but does reduce the immediate pain.
Yeah I saw that when I was googling but I think that’s only wound healing not strains/sprains. Getting into ‘ask your doctor’ territory here though.
Each to their own. Just some putting some research out there.
That’s not research though, that’s an advertorial for a company that sells an App to fix sports injuries
Yeah totally, that was just the top hit on Google. There is many reports for both sides. I think you just have to work out what’s best for the individual as everyones body is different.
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Yeah I agree and usually I’m in the ‘no pills’ camp. I do think the best advice is to stay on top of your strength and diet and flexibility, but sometimes you just fuck yourself up and need to get out of it asap.
I had a knackered ankle for about ten years in my twenties from constantly skating on it. So hard to rest when you’re young, no car, skating/raving/working 7 days a week. It eventually healed and then I sprained it again five years ago or whatever it was, so I was extra conscious of getting it back to normal, hence the doctor visit.
It worked for me, and it was probably the right advice for me at the time but it’s good to be aware of all the options.
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Crypto…pretty sure that’s becoming the pyramid scheme of our time.
Bloke at work suggested I get into it, I’m not even into betting on the nags but I thought “£100 won’t hurt too much” - lost 60 quid of that in the last 8 weeks, I obviously got in right at the beginning of a slump.
Luckily i’m properly small fry, I think my neighbor’s in to the tune of about 10 to 20 grand so christ knows what he’s lost.
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