The HEM Blog
The HEM Blog
How Long Does a Sprained Ankle Take to Heal
How Long Does it Take to Heal a Sprained Ankle? There are a few simple things you need to know in order to determine how long it will take to heal a sprained ankle. The first and most important thing you need to know is... do you have a [...]
How to Heal a Sprained Ankle Overnight
How to Heal a Sprained Ankle Overnight... Even though sprained ankles are considered a minor injury (in most cases), compared to a knee or low back injury, ankle sprains can still be extremely painful and slow to heal. In fact, studies show that if you plan to use rest [...]
How to Fix a Rolled Ankle
Rolling an ankle is one of the most common injuries in sports. It's called a "rolled" ankle because the ligaments on the outside of your ankle are stretched or torn. It is caused by twisting or turning your foot or ankle too quickly or forcefully, usually when you twist your [...]
Symptoms of a Sprained Ankle
The main symptoms of a sprained ankle... A sprain is an injury to the ligaments. It typically involves stretching of the ligaments beyond their normal range of motion, which can lead to small tears in the ligament fibers. This generally causes pain, swelling, bruising and a feeling of instability [...]
What to do if you can’t walk on your injured or sprained ankle
What are the symptoms of sprained ankle? An ankle sprain is an injury to the ligaments connecting the tibia and fibula bones of your ankle. These ligaments are what hold your foot in place when you walk, run, or jump. When the ligaments are stretched, torn, or broken, they [...]
Learn the Language of Pain to Heal Faster and Better
Pain is one of the most valuable assets to healing an injury. But, you have to learn the language of pain or it may become your biggest enemy. Learning to understand pain more fully is one of the biggest keys to healing yourself safely, fully and quickly. Pain is [...]
Top 3 Reasons NOT to use Ankle Braces
We have found, after many years of helping thousands of people heal their sprained ankles fully and quickly, that ankle braces are not helpful and may actually cause more harm than good. Here's why people end up using them in the first place... If your ankles heal [...]
Top 3 Reasons to do Ankle Rehab
Why can't I just use rest and ice?? After a sprained ankle, everyone makes the same mistake... They think to themselves, 'I'll just rest and ice it until it feels better.' But, what if I told you that's actually the worst thing you could do? I know, it sounds [...]
Why I love Lunges
It's all about functional movement. What is the point of working out if it's not making your life better? Sometimes I ask people why they chose to do an exercise (aka biceps curls - you know who I'm talking about...) and they either have no idea or it's just [...]
How to get back in shape AFTER Coronavirus
It's been an awful year. It felt like everything went wrong in the last year... COVID shook us to our core and made us rethink almost every aspect of our lives. The truth is that it's been a very tragic and lonely time for everyone. I tried to find [...]
The #1 Reason you have to Rehab your Ankle Sprain
An ankle sprain is the #1 most common related sports injury and for good reason. Your feet are what come into contact with the ground and almost all of us have very tight calves and unstable ankles. There are a lot [...]
How to Stay in Shape & Sane During Coronavirus
We are in new, uncharted waters... experts say we will have to practice social distancing for a long time. It could be at least 18 months until we have a vaccine for COVID-19. Gyms are closed. Facilities are closed. Sporting events have been cancelled. And that includes everything from [...]
How to Heal Torn Ankle Tendons
Here's a quick overview of how the ankle works... There are 3 bones: the tibia, fibula and talus. These bones are held together by ligaments, which are are tough elastic bands of connective tissue that help stabilize the joint. Think of ligaments like a rope with a series of [...]
A Sprained Ankle – The Facts
What are sprained ankles? A sprained ankle is the most common sports related injury. There are over 25,000 sprained ankles a day. Why do they happen so often? Unfortunately, it is because most of us have very weak, stiff and unstable ankles... and most of the time, we don't [...]
Weak Ankles – The Facts
If you have weak ankles, that usually means that there was some kind of trauma in the foot, ankle or calf complex and the ankle never fully recovered. But, it may not just be due to an old sprained ankle that never healed.... for example, if you've been wearing [...]
How Long Does a Sprained Ankle Take to Heal
How Long Does it Take to Heal a Sprained Ankle? There are a few simple things you need to know in order to determine how long it will take to heal a sprained ankle. [...]
How to Heal a Sprained Ankle Overnight
How to Heal a Sprained Ankle Overnight... Even though sprained ankles are considered a minor injury (in most cases), compared to a knee or low back injury, ankle sprains can still be extremely painful [...]
How to Fix a Rolled Ankle
Rolling an ankle is one of the most common injuries in sports. It's called a "rolled" ankle because the ligaments on the outside of your ankle are stretched or torn. It is caused by twisting [...]
Symptoms of a Sprained Ankle
The main symptoms of a sprained ankle... A sprain is an injury to the ligaments. It typically involves stretching of the ligaments beyond their normal range of motion, which can lead to small tears [...]
What to do if you can’t walk on your injured or sprained ankle
What are the symptoms of sprained ankle? An ankle sprain is an injury to the ligaments connecting the tibia and fibula bones of your ankle. These ligaments are what hold your foot in place [...]
Learn the Language of Pain to Heal Faster and Better
Pain is one of the most valuable assets to healing an injury. But, you have to learn the language of pain or it may become your biggest enemy. Learning to understand pain more fully [...]
Top 3 Reasons NOT to use Ankle Braces
We have found, after many years of helping thousands of people heal their sprained ankles fully and quickly, that ankle braces are not helpful and may actually cause more harm than good. [...]
Top 3 Reasons to do Ankle Rehab
Why can't I just use rest and ice?? After a sprained ankle, everyone makes the same mistake... They think to themselves, 'I'll just rest and ice it until it feels better.' But, what if [...]
Why I love Lunges
It's all about functional movement. What is the point of working out if it's not making your life better? Sometimes I ask people why they chose to do an exercise (aka biceps curls - [...]
How to get back in shape AFTER Coronavirus
It's been an awful year. It felt like everything went wrong in the last year... COVID shook us to our core and made us rethink almost every aspect of our lives. The truth is [...]
The #1 Reason you have to Rehab your Ankle Sprain
An ankle sprain is the #1 most common related sports injury and for good reason. Your feet are what come into contact with the ground and [...]
How to Stay in Shape & Sane During Coronavirus
We are in new, uncharted waters... experts say we will have to practice social distancing for a long time. It could be at least 18 months until we have a vaccine for COVID-19. Gyms [...]
How to Heal Torn Ankle Tendons
Here's a quick overview of how the ankle works... There are 3 bones: the tibia, fibula and talus. These bones are held together by ligaments, which are are tough elastic bands of connective tissue [...]
A Sprained Ankle – The Facts
What are sprained ankles? A sprained ankle is the most common sports related injury. There are over 25,000 sprained ankles a day. Why do they happen so often? Unfortunately, it is because most of [...]
Weak Ankles – The Facts
If you have weak ankles, that usually means that there was some kind of trauma in the foot, ankle or calf complex and the ankle never fully recovered. But, it may not just be [...]
How to Heal a New Ankle Sprain
What to do FIRST for an Ankle Sprain... Immediately after a sprained ankle, you will see and feel swelling and pain / stiffness around the entire ankle. It may be difficult or even impossible [...]
How to Heal an Old Ankle Sprain
The Cycle of Pain. 33% of people who get an ankle sprain will be in pain 1 year later! (Evid Based Med 2008; 13 (6):187. Margo KL.) After one sprain, you are 4 times [...]
How to Heal an Inversion Ankle Sprain
What is an Inversion Ankle Sprain? This is the most common type of ankle sprain. It occurs when your ankle twists outward and the ligaments become over-stretched, torn or even rupture. It is also [...]
Grade 1 Ankle Sprain
Grade 1 Ankle Sprain Symptoms. A grade 1 ankle sprain is the least severe of the three grades of injury. Grade 1 usually means NO tearing of the ligaments in the ankle. Instead, you [...]
Grade 2 Ankle Sprain
Grade 2 Ankle Sprain Symptoms. A grade 2 ankle sprain is considered a moderate injury. It is not as severe as a grade 3, but definitely more serious than a grade 1 sprain. Grade [...]