Got Ankle Pain? Try This Exercise for INSTANT Pain Relief!

Hey everybody, it's Doctor Jo and Rimble Bee, and today I'm going to show you my favorite exercise to relieve ankle pain. So my favorite exercise for ankle pain is ankle pumps. So ankle pumps are great because they can really be done anywhere. You can do them in sitting, you can bring your leg up and do them like this, you can lie all the way down and do them in bed. So they're really nice because you can pretty much do them anywhere, you don't need any equipment or anything like that. So we're going to do this in real time. We're going to do 30 seconds, take a little break and do 30 seconds again, and do three sets of 30 seconds. This is just so you can do as many as you comfortably can in that 30 seconds. Sometimes it's nice to have a time limit so you can, you know, maybe let's say the first time you do it, you can only do 10, and then you can progress your way up with some goals. So I'm going to go ahead and hit the start button. It's going to give us a little 10 second buffer. I am going to do them in sitting, but like I said, you can kind of do them in any position. So that's a nice way to do it. I like to just kind of bring my leg out, you're pointing down as far as you can, and then pulling up as far as you comfortably can. So you really want to try and get that full movement with ankle pumps. You don't have to go fast, you don't have to go slow, just kind of that continuous motion. It's working those calf muscles, it's working the anterior tibialis up there, but it's making that calf muscle kind of work as a natural pump in your body. So these are not only great for exercising, but let's say you have some swelling in your legs, ankle pumps are great for that too. I'm just doing one side. You can do both sides if you want to, if you want to do all of them on one side and then watch the video again and do them all on the other side. If you're sitting or if you're lying down propped up, you can do them both at the same time. So, you know, whatever's comfortable for you, you can work them both and kind of get them out of the way. If you're at your desk, if there's room underneath your desk, you can just kind of kick your legs up and do these. This is great, especially if you have to sit a lot, just to keep the blood flowing. And again, this is really an exercise working your muscles too. If you're doing these and really kind of going all the way down, getting all the way up, you're going to feel those muscles working. So you don't necessarily have to have weight to be doing an exercise. But it's a great way, again, just to really get those muscles working, especially if you're sitting a lot throughout the day. Or maybe if you're in an airplane and you can't get up and move around. So ankle pumps are also one of my favorite exercises to kind of help prevent things like maybe DVTs and stuff like that, where when you're sitting for a long period of time and you don't have that blood flow like you should. So these are great. And again, like I say, you can do both of them at the same time. This might be a little hard or uncomfortable. So you can just do one at a time. You don't have to bring your knee all the way up either. You can do it down low as well. So there you have it. That was my favorite exercise to relieve ankle pain. That wasn't quite the one for you. I have a whole bunch of other videos for ankle pain for exercises and stretches. And you can click on the link up there. And remember, be safe, have fun, and I hope you feel better soon.