What should I do if I sprained my foot playing basketball?

Stop exercising immediately after injury, and then wash your ankle with cold water for a few minutes immediately to avoid serious swelling and congestion. It should be noted that some basketball fans, although their sprained feet are not very serious, continue to play after spraining, which will aggravate their illness and cause greater danger. Repeated sprain is easy to weaken the lateral ligament of the foot, and it is easy to cause habitual sprain of the foot, which is more troublesome to recover. After 48 ~ 72 hours of injury, you can soak your feet in warm water for 20 ~ 30 minutes to speed up blood circulation, and you can also speed up the recovery of the injured part through massage and hyperthermia. After a few days, even if you feel that the injured part is not very painful, don't do high-intensity exercise immediately. Do some functional exercises of ankle joint first. The specific method is as follows:

(1) Ankle varus training patients sit on the bed, legs straight, upper body slightly tilted back, hands to provide support for the body. Wrap the training belt around his foot, turn the foot on one side of the affected limb inward (varus), and don't turn the knee outward.

(2) Ankle valgus training patients sit on the bed, legs straight, upper body slightly backward, hands to provide support for the body, wrap the training belt around the outside of the foot, and fix it with the other foot, so as to evert the affected foot (eversion), and do not rotate the knee joint outward.

(3) Ankle dorsiflexion training patients sit on the bed, straighten their legs, and put the training belt on the instep of the affected side. Keep your knees stretched and your feet bent in your own direction to resist the resistance of the training belt.