Sprained Ancle..advice needed!

Im not a doctor but you prob wont have to wait more than 2 weeks max- Ive sprained my ankle a number of times playing basketball test it out gradually once you can run on it for a lap you'll be fine it just needs to get warmed up and once its warmed you'll be fine.

Aquajogging is boring as hell, but is the best thing. Even stationary biking could put weight and pressure on the ankle. I was out with an Achilles injury for a few months and aquajogging was the only thing I could do that did not aggravate it. Your sprain sounds pretty bad.

And there is no way to know exactly how long you will be out of running, but trying to come back too soon will put you out for even longer. It'll likely be a case of all crosstraining, then adding in some running, and over the course of some weeks adding more and more running until you can finally leave the water wings behind. I'd guess that it will be late summer until you are all running/no crosstraining. Sorry, but that's my totally uneducated guess.

I'll add that in college I sprained my ankle very badly - black and blue and everything - and I was out for two months, the whole outdoor season was gone. BUT, I came back the next fall in the best shape of my life. It really made me want it more.

Make sure you let it heal properly! I hurt my ankle playing soccer in eighth grade, didn't let it heal fully and I've had problems spraining it frequently again for the last eight years. Do the therapy exercises your doctor gave you! And make sure it's healed enough so that you're not going to sprain it again the first day you're back running (and, of course, for a long time after that).

Ankle

sorry i spelled ankle wrong

It depends on how badly you sprained it. I sprained my ankle not too long ago, and it took me about two weeks to get it back into running form. Its still not 100%, and I have had a couple of minor setbacks, but if you do the exercises youd doctor gave you, you should be alright, not have any problems. Alternate icing and wrapping(ace bandage), do it several times a day. Try to stay off of it until you can walk on it without pain. Do range of motion exercises and strengthening exercies and do them often as soon as you can, as long as it doesn't hurt badly to do so. And if you do do the Aquajog thing, make sure to stabilize your ankle with an ace bandage or something (the water resistance pushing your foot around can irritate the sprain)