Injury to the foot is very annoying because it will affect our daily activities. unfortunately most people do the wrong first aid when his foot injury. The following are the steps that correct first aid when you get an injury to the leg:
1. Rest your feet for a moment and not be forced to move. Excessive activity can lead to further complications, such as a torn ligament will be more severe, often accompanied by fractures sprained / broken / cracked the bone.
2. compress leg injury with ice. do with warm water. when a new injury took place, there will be tears of blood vessels that lead to the release of “content” of blood vessels into the tissue around it so swollen blood vessels around the injury also will widen (dilate) in response to inflammation. Giving a cold compress / ice will be “narrow” which widens blood vessels, thereby reducing swelling. Cold compresses can be done 1-2 times a day, no more than 20 minutes because it would interfere with blood circulation.
Conversely, when the injury is chronic, inflammatory tanda2 such as swollen, red, severe pain is gone, then the principle of warm compresses can be done
3 .compression. Compress / emphasis on the injury, could do with a bandage / bandaged. Not too tight, the aim to reduce the swelling.
4. elevation. If the reply sprained ankle foot, sering2 rest with feet up, with rocking. The goal is to reduce the swelling.
Provision of anti-drug and anti-inflammatory pain can be provided upon your doctor’s instructions.
How to massage / traditional massage?
Medically, this is not justifiable. Why? Sprain is an injury that involves the inflammation process, which is accompanied by tears of blood vessels and even a heavier longer be accompanied by a fracture or ligament tear is greater. Manipulation / massage part and prevent injury will worsen because of the torn blood vessels which normally should be “closed” (as the body’s natural response), not to mention if there is ligament tears and fractures. RICE principle is a principle that has become the gold standard / principle of the primary treatment for sprains anywhere in the world, especially for olahragawan2.
If you are someone who loves sports benar2, the act of “aggressive” sometimes needs to be done, for example:
X-rays can see the presence of accompanying injuries such as fracture / cracked / broken bones, but can not see the injury / tear on ligaments. To see the ligament with good, to do an MRI.
For the selection of anti-pain and inflammation, there is some controversy, because the inflammatory process that occurs is the body’s natural mechanism to “recover”. By taking anti-drug and anti-inflammatory pain, then this mechanism will be eliminated and consequently the healing will be delayed.
