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Suffering from Ankle Sprain

Ankle Sprain really no fun at all.

While I was playing badminton, my ankle suddenly rolled inward while I was doing a move. Landing to the ground, the pain is so sharp that I can’t barely move. I miss the whole game because of that but of course I didn’t miss the pain, soreness and swelling of my sprained ankle. What is ankle sprain anyway?

Ankle Spain

When one or more of our ankle ligaments are injured, that is what we called Ankle Sprain. Ankle sprain mostly happens on the outer part of our ankle.

When we do quick moves and the position of our foot is not right, when we do a sudden twist, or even when we walk and run into uneven surface, our Ligaments are forced to move away into its position and tend to stretched, like elastic bands, to cope up. In this case the Ligaments which serves to be a connection between one bone to another produces much tension, extending to its limit. And the cause of this? over stretching of the ligaments and sometimes tearing apart. Stability of the ankle joints are loss. Ankle sprains are sometimes being mistaken as strains. Be aware that strains are injury on the muscles not ligaments.

After the fall, difficulty in walking is my number one problem. Swelling and soreness occur too not to mention the pain. I can’t move my entire ankle and my joints became stiff.

RICE for Injured Ankle

I didn’t mean rice grain for that What I mean is RICE:

R - Rest

I - Ice

C - Compression

E - Elevation

Those are the first aid methods you can use if you happen to sprained your ankle. You must REST your ankle by NOT walking into it. A two days rest is a must. Resting your ankle can help speed up your ligaments recovery. Your tissues will start to heal itself. But if you continue on walking, you will only give your body more hard work tearing again the newly healed tissues. A bag of ICE can be applied on the swollen part for up to two days. Just apply it for up to 15 minutes, five times a day with two hours interval on each application. Compression is useful to immobilized your ankle. You can use elastic bandage until swelling decreases. Just make sure you don’t squeeze your ankle too much or don’t put the bandage too tight. And lastly, don’t forget to elevate your ankle above your heart. The purpose of ELEVATION is for better blood circulation.

Ankle Sprain can heal from 2-16 weeks. In my case, 8 weeks are my total healing time. Those two months with an injured ankle is really boring… and painful. Every injury really needs a lot of patience and discipline to be fully healed. Some exercises are also needed to restore normal ankle movement like flexing your ankle from time to time and some stretching movements focusing on your ankle to restore flexibility. All I can say is that it is all hard work.

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Chemicals Flavonoids and Terpenoids can both be found on Gingko leaves. These chemicals has very strong anti-oxidant properties making Gingko a very effective in treating decreased blood flow to brain specially for the elders. Gingko cam improve our thinking and learning skills too. It can lessen the feelings of depression and improve our activities daily. Most importantly, it can enhance our memory.

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ZJ’s Trip To Paris

My niece ZJ is very happy indeed that finally her parents grant her wish to visit Disney Paris. Last month, the three of them, ZJ’s mom and dad and her, headed to Paris for their weekend trip. Although they are staying in London right now, getting to Paris is not easy specially with all the expense. After their tour from Disney, they also went to The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) and take a look inside.

I was able to put some photos of them here. Enjoy.

ZJ with Cheshire Cat of Alice in Wonderland

Disney Boutique

The Disney Castle

Lumiere ~ Lumiere is one of my favorite on Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Alladin and Princess Jasmine ~ Of course! The story of Alladin is my favorite too. Jasmine is so lovely!

Simba’s Pride ~ I’m sure you don’t wanna mess with the King of The Jungle XD

Snow White and her Prince ~ What can I say they are both lovely!

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Why is it that sometimes we still have this feeling of emptiness inside us? Emptiness that can never be replaced by any material things? Does it ever occur to you that maybe true happiness is lacking in your life? or bliss is not present?

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no time for blogging????

Here I am again. Stuck at work and no time for blogging argh! I am so sorry for leaving my blog empty for few weeks now, but what can I do??? To my visitors out there, please pray that I can get back to my normal life again ok? Thanks so much. I really appreciate that

Micgui

third wish

I saw this funny cartoon on Readers Digest a moment ago. Well, for me, my third wish will definitely another three wishes haha XD.

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