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a torn ligament throwing a tantrum your bones quietly enable
means To injure a joint by wrenching or twisting it so the ligaments stretch or tear, without actually breaking a bone.
from English from around the 1600s, with murky roots — possibly traced back through Old French to the Latin 'exprimere,' to press or wring out, the same wringing motion that twists a joint past its limit. But the trail is faint, and honest dictionaries shrug: the exact ancestry of 'sprain' is genuinely uncertain.
- grade scale
- ranked one to three by fibers shredded
- ankle favorite
- most common sprain site in humans
- vs strain
- sprains hit ligaments, strains hit muscles
- swell speed
- ankles balloon within hours from leaking fluid
- rice rule
- rest, ice, compression, elevation born from this
for instance
ankle sprain — most common sports injury, accounting for ~25,000 cases daily in the us
wrist sprain — frequent in gymnastics and skateboarding, second most common sprain type