LONG BOARDING: ANKLES ON THE LINE

After 5 minutes introduction of long boarding, I was convinced that I was more than ready to skate my way out of that mall basement. Talk of ego and logic conflicting. I mounted my right foot on it (I'm a goofy rider) and before I could even get the left foot on the board the thing flew past my feet leaving me to land on the floor with a double snap on my versed ankle. For someone who's never been injured before, that was the most terrible type of pain I have ever been through. I literally have a new kind of respect to these athletes who gets injured and keep on playing like it's nothing.

The ankle is moderately swollen on the lateral malleolus, I could not put pressure on it  at first my workmate had to carry me on her shoulder to a resting point. After trying to aggressively ice and elevate it the pain was still overwhelming for the first 30 minutes. I got worried, wanted to rush to emergency care but thank God for those millions of insurance calls I felt better while in the process of calling the hospital and crosschecking if I can be covered with my Orient insurance.

Since it was on a work day I had two clients who were to come later on during the day so that got me worried because I would never want miscellaneous issues go between me and my clients. I work with really considerate colleagues and the really helped me get through with icing, anti-inflammatory gel and re-scheduling one of my clients. The other client is quite a case, it's a couple and they have been waiting to get our services for a while so who am I to deny them a 40 minute session and that means I just have to be easy with the ankle for forty minutes, standing and doing bouts of walking so that's not rocket science. I'm actually excited to see how that session will go.

So far this is what I have done to the ankle:

• Icing immediately for about 10 minutes  and then followed up with subsequent icing after every 60 minutes, so far I have iced it thrice.
• Elevating it to drain the moderate joint effusion.
• A little bit of compression to limit swelling.
• Self applied kinesiology tape to provide support and also reduce the inflammation.
• Rub Voltaren gel for anti inflammatory purposes too.
• Had two 500mg Ipobrufen immediately because I was scared, shaking and the pain was past unbearable. 

 I have to attend a Vans skateboarding event tomorrow so that's on the line, it doesn't happen everyday. I will keep on updating the progress with time, let's see how fast or efficient these these interventions are.

UPDATE

After 12 hours it was the worst. Body weight bearing was at 10% tolerance so there was no way I could even leave the house for work leave alone events. The swelling is still there but the pain is subsiding because I have just overdosed on some strong antinflammatory. Now it's elevated and compressed with hourly icing.