Broken foot is a common thing in people's life, medically known as "ankle sprain". This trauma is an injury in which an external force causes the ankle to exceed its maximum range of motion, stretching and tearing the muscles, ligaments, and even the joint capsule around the joint, resulting in pain, swelling, and a limp.

Because the angle of normal ankle inversion is much larger than the angle of outversion, when you break your foot, the foot is usually twisted inward and the injured part is on the outer ankle. Many people are first rubbing the pain, then wash your feet with hot water, blood swelling, and finally endure the pain walking, activities, in order not to "store the tendons". But practice has shown that this disposal of the broken foot is not appropriate.

Because the local small blood vessels rupture bleeding and oozing tissue fluid together will form a hematoma, generally after 24 hours or so to repair, stop bleeding and oozing. If you rub hard immediately after the injury, hot compresses, washing hot, forced activities, will inevitably rub part of the blood stasis at the same time to accelerate bleeding and oozing, and even aggravate the rupture of blood vessels, resulting in the formation of a larger hematoma, so that the injured part of the swelling on the swelling, the pain on the pain. People often say that the "storage of tendons", in fact, after the injury of soft tissue adhesions, affecting the functional activities. This situation usually occurs in the middle and late stages of the injury. Therefore, the limited activity within a few days after the injury is generally due to the pain to limit the activity, rather than adhesion caused by the "storage tendon".

So, what is the right way to deal with a broken foot?

1. Distinguish the severity of the injury. The most important thing to remember is that you can't be a good person if you don't want to be a good person, but you can be a good person if you don't want to be a good person. If the injury is minor, you can handle it by yourself, but if it is serious, you have to go to the hospital and ask the doctor to diagnose and treat it. Therefore, it is very important to distinguish the severity of the injury.

Generally speaking, if you don't have severe pain when you move your ankle, you can barely stand and walk; if the pain is not in the bone but in the tendon, it's mostly a sprain, and you can deal with it on your own. If you have severe pain when you move your ankle, can't stand and move, the place of pain in the bone, or sprain when you feel the foot inside the sound, after the injury, rapid swelling, especially the pressure point of the outer ankle or the outside of the foot in the middle of the high protrusion of the bone, that is the performance of the injury is serious, and should be sent to the hospital immediately to consult the doctor. If you are limited to conditions can not go to the hospital, you can also temporarily in accordance with the following methods of disposal, and then go to the hospital as soon as possible diagnosis and treatment.

2. The correct use of hot and cold compresses. Hot and cold compresses are physical therapy, but the role is very different. Blood is energized by heat, and coagulated by cold. Therefore, in the ruptured blood vessel is still bleeding when the cold compress, in order to control the development of the injury. After the bleeding stops, hot compresses can be applied to dissipate the blood stasis around the injury.

The careful reader must ask, how can we know the bleeding has stopped? In principle, 24 hours after the injury as a boundary, but also can refer to the following points: First, the pain and swelling tend to stabilize, no longer continue to aggravate; second is to elevate and lower the affected foot when the feeling of distension is not much difference; third is the temperature of the skin at the site of the injury from slightly higher than the normal part of the skin, into a fairly close to the same, which can be taken as a basis for the cessation of hemorrhage.

3. Appropriate activities. In the post-injury swelling and pain progressive development, do not support the weight of standing or walking, it is best to elevate the affected limb to limit any activity. When the condition tends to stabilize, you can elevate the affected limb to carry out active activities of the ankle, but prohibited from doing activities that can cause severe pain. When the swelling and pain gradually reduce, then walk on the ground, the time should be shorter, to be adapted to slowly increase.

4. Correctly press and knead. Before the bleeding stops, it is better to do continuous pressure and kneading at the hematoma, the method is to use the palm of the hand to press on the local area, and the pressure is suitable for the pain is still bearable. The time is to continue to press for 2~3 minutes and then slowly release, pause for a moment and then repeat the operation. Repeat the operation 5 times each time as a stage, and it is more appropriate to do 3~4 stages per day. After the bleeding stops, do kneading, use the big fish or thumb to apply some pressure to the local and kneading, the direction is to take the swelling as the center, centrifugal to all directions around the kneading, each time to do 2~3 minutes, do 3~5 times a day.

5. Reasonable medication. Before the bleeding stops, it is not appropriate to take or apply blood-activating drugs, can be used to "good fast" spray wound, internal Yunnan blood medicine. After the bleeding stops, it is appropriate to apply the five tiger Dan, take the pill, blood circulation and pain relief, and so on. In the later stage, Chinese herbs can be used for fumigation. If there is no proprietary Chinese medicine on hand, you can also fry the flour yellow, mixed with rice vinegar and applied to the affected area, instead of five tiger Dan, the effect is also more ideal. Using a pinch of pepper, a small handful of salt boiled water fumigation, instead of Chinese herbs is also effective.

Finally, I wish you a speedy recovery.