I’m just getting over a bad case of this (at least I hope I am)… it started in Feburary after a bad fall (I broke my wrist) and now I’m almost normal. I started with icing my ankle daily for a couple of weeks, stretching the ankle/calf/IT band, and rolling with Jill Miller’s YTU balls using segments of her Massage Therapy kit. I rolled all the way from the glutes, down to the IT band, calf, and ankle daily for about a month. Then I just did the calf and ankle for a few weeks, then, frankly, all I did was stretch it. I also wore a neoprene ankle brace sometimes during the first couple of months. I had to give up my daily walks, and any exercise routine that involved the ankle. Since I was dealing with the wrist, too, I started doing mat pilates – which turned out to be great for my back! In the last month I’ve slowly gotten back to my walks, Classical Stretch, some Margaret, and just about anything else I used to do. I get tiny twinges once in a while if I overdo, but I stretch it and it seems fine.
I hope that helps!
Joan
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