to be honest you could still easily have a fracture, you arent a doctor yourself and you dont know what criteria warrant investigation. frankly just based on the bruising i would get a doctors evaluation to see if you need an xray, cause you could have a broken fibula and the longer you let an injury like that go without proper setting and immobilization, the more irregular the healing will be.
Quote (Betrayed @ Jan 4 2018 10:47pm)
RICE the first week. You shouldn't exercise while you still have pain. Working on stabilising something that is still in pain isn't the best idea. Ull still need to work on it once the inflammation is gone. Also, how did u sprained it. In which position was ur foot?
pain is not an indicator of whether something is healed or not. pain goes to baseline WAY before full tissue healing is completed. the biggest mechanism for reinjury in athletes is by far when individuals return to full activity as soon as pain is gone, ie. before theyre completely healed.