Every injury is different, obviously.  And every person has a weakness in their physical body that is different, obviously.  For myself, it is the ankles.  I broke one one, and ripped the ligaments in the other, a few times.  These consistent injuries were the result of a combined effort of life, or rather not the efforts of life, but just part of life, the parts being ballet dancing and the desire to learn how to surf in Laguna Beach.

At sixteen years of age, I managed to break my ankle in the crash of a wave in the Pacific Ocean.  It was a case of putting my weight on the outside edge of the ankle, thus twisting it inward and cracking the bone of the talus, the joint.  Being a 16 year old at the beginning of a beach vacation, I said nothing to the adults.  And being a 16 year old coming home and returning to dance class, I said nothing.  The ankle went from black, to blue to normal in color, but not in size.  The sports trainer at my school utilized hydrotherapy.

For thirty minutes each afternoon, my leg was immersed in ice water, then put into a warm water spa, much like those found nowadays at choosehottubsdirect.com.  This hot and cold water therapy is very good for injured muscles, however the trainer did not know that the bone had been broken.  I was put into a cast a few months later, once my mom actually saw the injured ankle.  ‘Twas the size of a big orange, or a small grapefruit.

Years later, a similar situation occured with the ankle of my other foot.  Was in a dance class, came down from being somewhere in the air, on that outside-side of the foot.  Skin was taken by the floor, as well as the rest of my body being taken by the floor, and the ankle swelled up immediately.  Being a bit older at the time, I had X-rays taken right away, and while no bone was broken, the ligaments were torn.

This form of injury is often more painful and more slow to heal, for they do not put you in a cast, unless some bone has been broken.  So what did I do?  I turned to water therapy, again.  The alternation of hot and cold, from a hot spa treatment to a cold soak.  Everyday.  This is one way to jump start circulation, it is the forced dilation and constriction of the blood vessels. It will push the blood to pump and the oxygen to flow. This is just one way that hot tub spas tend to heal the wounds of everyday life.

Healing an Injury with Water Therapy and Hot Tub Spas is a post from: T For Travel

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