What medicine should I use if my foot is crooked and swollen

Although the human ankle joint seems hard, if people do not pay attention to their walking conditions in daily life, they may sprain their ankle. Especially for female friends, the chance of spraining the ankle is very high when wearing high heels. Generally, when the ankle joint is sprained, a swelling will form on the surface, which is very painful. So what medicine should be used to treat a crooked and swollen foot?

After a sprain, you should use cold compresses, and avoid massage or using blood-activating drugs. The affected area can only be massaged or applied with hot compresses about 24 hours after the injury. At this time, it can indeed promote blood circulation, speed up the absorption and disappearance of blood stasis, and help the injured tissue repair and heal.

Distinguish the severity of the injury. A mild sprain is only a soft tissue injury, while a slightly more serious one may be a fracture of the lateral malleolus or the base of the fifth metatarsal. A more serious one may be a fracture of both the medial and lateral malleolus, or even a fracture of the trimalleolar bone. A mild one can be treated by yourself, but a severe one must go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment by a doctor. Therefore, it is very important to distinguish the severity of the injury. Generally speaking, if you do not feel severe pain when you move your ankle, and you can still stand and walk with your weight; if the pain is not in the bones but in the muscles, it is mostly a sprain and you can treat it yourself. If you feel severe pain when you move your ankle, cannot stand or walk with your weight, the pain is in the bones, or you feel a sound in your foot when you sprain it, and swelling occurs quickly after the injury, especially the tenderness point is on the lateral malleolus or the high protruding bone in the middle of the outer foot surface, it is a sign of a serious injury and you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment immediately. If you cannot go to the hospital for the time being due to limited conditions, you can also temporarily deal with it according to the following methods, and then go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible.

Use hot and cold compresses correctly. Both hot and cold compresses are physical therapies, but their effects are completely different. Blood becomes active when it is hot, and becomes coagulated when it is cold. Therefore, cold compresses should be applied when the ruptured blood vessels are still bleeding to control the development of the injury. Hot compresses can be applied only after the bleeding stops to dissipate the blood stasis around the injury. Careful readers must ask, how can we know whether the bleeding has stopped? In principle, the limit is 24 hours after the injury, and the following points can also be used as reference: First, the pain and swelling tend to stabilize and no longer continue to increase; second, the swelling feeling is not much different when raising and lowering the affected foot; third, the temperature of the skin at the injured area changes from slightly higher than the normal part to being quite similar, which can be used as the basis for the bleeding to stop.

Appropriate activities. When the swelling and pain after the injury are developing, do not stand or walk with your weight supported. It is best to raise the affected limb to limit any activities. When the condition stabilizes, you can raise the affected limb to actively move the foot and ankle, but do not do activities that may cause severe pain. When the swelling and pain gradually subside, you can walk again. The time should be short at first, and then gradually increase after you get used to it.

Correct massage. Before the bleeding stops, it is better to continue to massage the hematoma. The method is to press the local area with the thenar of the palm. The pressure should be bearable even though it hurts. The time is to press for 2 to 3 minutes and then slowly release it. Stop for a while and repeat the operation. Each repetition is 5 times as a stage. It is more appropriate to do 3 to 4 stages a day. After the bleeding stops, kneading method is used. Use the thenar or thumb to apply a certain amount of pressure to the local area and knead it. The direction is to use the obvious swelling as the center and knead it in all directions around it centrifugally. Do it for 2 to 3 minutes each time and do it 3 to 5 times a day.

Precautions

After spraining your ankle, do not get up too early or carry any weight to avoid hindering the recovery of its function. Generally, you have to wait 7 to 10 days for the sprain to basically heal before you can gradually start walking.

When sleeping, the affected foot can be elevated with a pillow to reduce swelling. Be careful when walking. When going downhill or stairs, the plantar flexion angle of your foot should not be too large to prevent sprains.