That pain in your ankle is typically caused by minor injuries that happen when you accidentally twist your foot beyond its normal range of mobility, resulting in the joints and ligaments of your feet to tear.

The parts that are often injured are the ligaments on the lateral part of your ankle. The ligaments on the inner medial part, or above the bone of your ankle, can also be damaged, but are rarely hurt. After you hurt your ankle, you may have some swollen ankles, difficulty to step or walk on the affected foot, throbbing pain, muscle tension, tightness on the injured foot, and weak ankle joints.

What are the Benefits of Pain Therapy?

A professional physical therapist will create a treatment plan and work with you to:

It alleviates swelling. You will find out how to manage or modify your regular physical activities to enable treatment to start. Your physical therapist will use multiple treatment techniques and technologies to reduce and relieve your pain and swelling.

It improves strength. Treatment exercises will help to heal at each process of treatment. Your physical therapist will identify and train you the appropriate movements to perform in order properly and accurately rebuild your strength.

It boosts endurance. Bringing back your muscular endurance in the ankle is very important especially after an injury. Your physical therapist will work with you on exercises and stretching designed to restore your endurance, so you can get back on track with your daily tasks.

It increases flexibility. Your physical therapist will check if any of your ankle muscles is tight, start to stretch them, and inform you of how to recondition them.

It refines balance. Restoring your sense of balance is also essential after minor injury. Your physical therapist will help you with the appropriate exercises to improve your balance.

It restores agility. The speed and correlated leg movement is important in sports and even in various daily activities. Your physical therapist will help you improve these skills in preparation for sporting events and daily activities.

Physical therapy helps strengthen your muscles and treat your pain through stretching our ankle pain therapy in El Segundo. Our treatment plans will be customized to your needs and condition. When you do them as prescribed by your physical therapist, it can speed up your recovery. Contact Massage Rx today to start your treatment plan. We are also open in Culver City.