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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 706569"><p>Okay here's the deal. I tore my ankle ligaments in a basketball game when I was seventeen. I was in a cast for 6 weeks. and for six months later, if I stepped off a curb the wrong way , I would feel it and was deathly afraid of tearing it again. Time went by and I forgot about it as the ankle got stronger. A few winters ago,(about 20 years later , I tore the same ligaments again, slipping in the snow, off duty. I remembered what it felt like ago and looked like 20 years ago and it looked and felt the same way. I did not like the prospect of being in a cast again. I was off for the next two days. So when I got up the next morning, It was really swollen. I hobbled over to the pharmacy looking for an ace bandage. It turns out ace also manufactures a black ankle brace that goes around your ankle and is tightened by laces and a velcro strap. I bought it and got it put in on at home and it worked really well. I could have worked that day but still had 34 hours before I had to go back to work.</p><p></p><p>After back at work for a few days, the only pain I had was from walking funny because the part of the brace went under my foot and so essentially added maybe a 1/4 of an inch of height to my right leg. So I went back to the pharmacy and got another ace brace and put it on my left ankle just to even out the height for both legs. It worked like a charm. After two weeks, I could have gotten rid of them and for many days I didn't wear them, but if there was a chance of snow or ice. I put them on for preventative purposes. Now mind you I was a feeder driver then and now so my work is a little different than yours but I was shifting in the yard and that does involve a lot of getting out of the trailer and back in as well as walking the length of many a 53' foot trailer a few times (checking that no loaders are on board as well as closing swing doors.) and I had no problems.</p><p></p><p>So the ace ankle braces worked for me (not to be confused with ace bandages, although they are found in the same section of the drug store). I believe each one costs about 12 dollars at the time. </p><p></p><p>So that was my solution. Maybe it can work for you.</p><p></p><p>P.S. A few months ago, I noticed that the ace ankle braces are still being sold in the pharmacies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 706569"] Okay here's the deal. I tore my ankle ligaments in a basketball game when I was seventeen. I was in a cast for 6 weeks. and for six months later, if I stepped off a curb the wrong way , I would feel it and was deathly afraid of tearing it again. Time went by and I forgot about it as the ankle got stronger. A few winters ago,(about 20 years later , I tore the same ligaments again, slipping in the snow, off duty. I remembered what it felt like ago and looked like 20 years ago and it looked and felt the same way. I did not like the prospect of being in a cast again. I was off for the next two days. So when I got up the next morning, It was really swollen. I hobbled over to the pharmacy looking for an ace bandage. It turns out ace also manufactures a black ankle brace that goes around your ankle and is tightened by laces and a velcro strap. I bought it and got it put in on at home and it worked really well. I could have worked that day but still had 34 hours before I had to go back to work. After back at work for a few days, the only pain I had was from walking funny because the part of the brace went under my foot and so essentially added maybe a 1/4 of an inch of height to my right leg. So I went back to the pharmacy and got another ace brace and put it on my left ankle just to even out the height for both legs. It worked like a charm. After two weeks, I could have gotten rid of them and for many days I didn't wear them, but if there was a chance of snow or ice. I put them on for preventative purposes. Now mind you I was a feeder driver then and now so my work is a little different than yours but I was shifting in the yard and that does involve a lot of getting out of the trailer and back in as well as walking the length of many a 53' foot trailer a few times (checking that no loaders are on board as well as closing swing doors.) and I had no problems. So the ace ankle braces worked for me (not to be confused with ace bandages, although they are found in the same section of the drug store). I believe each one costs about 12 dollars at the time. So that was my solution. Maybe it can work for you. P.S. A few months ago, I noticed that the ace ankle braces are still being sold in the pharmacies. [/QUOTE]
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