Of course it is always desirable to have a physician apply the splints for a sprain where this is feasible, but with a little care it may be done by any intelligent person who will observe closely the directions given.
As soon as a sprain occurs the injured joint should be immersed in water just as warm as can be borne, and hot water should be from time to time added in order to keep the temperature sufficiently high.
Next to the ankle, a sprain of the wrist is most common.
A sprain may be a slight affair, needing only a brief rest, or it may be severe and painful enough to call for the most skillful treatment by a surgeon.
In walking about, as you take care not to step on a nail, or to sprain your foot, so take care not to damage your own ruling faculty; and if we observe this rule in every act, we shall undertake this act with more security.
Walking off a sprain won’t cure it, in fact only prolongs recovery.
In a sprain the ligaments become bruised or torn, there is loss of function and pain with inflammation.
If you mean you'll get sick, or sprain an ankle, or break a leg, or kill yourself, guess again.
You have no more of a sprain than I have, it is an abominable falsehood!
Try to get up, my dear child," said the mother, approaching Dolores with a vague distrust, for this sprain seemed to her quite unnatural.
Fastening my lips on hers, I felt with delight that our transports were mutual, and I blessed the sprain that had brought me such bliss.
I shut my door to everybody, even to the doctor, for my sprain disappeared of itself.
A sprain is worse than a break, so I've often heard: I can't say I know from experience.
The rough mountain-paths would have tried it, and perhaps a second sprain would have resulted.
A live woman, with a valuable soprano voice, wouldn't start off at night to sprain her ankles over the old graves of the North-End cemetery.
I might slip, and get a sprain or break a sinew, or something, and I should like to know that there is a practitioner at hand to take care of my injury.
The bruises are painful, and there is also a sprain that you will feel for many months; but no break of the bone," he replied.
He really thought he had broken the bones, but it proves to be a sprain that will keep him from walking alone for weeks.
She was somewhat concerned when she learned that her favorite among the girls had sprained her ankle but thanked her stars that it was only a sprain and not a snake bite or something terrible.
If the inquisitive choose to make of it a sprain it is their own affair.
How did you manage to fall and sprainyour ankle on this perfectly level ground?
Really, I shall be tempted to sprainmy ankle again, Jean, if it brings me such a dear little nurse.
You will often hear it said that a sprain is harder to heal than a fracture; but that kind of sprain usually includes a fracture of some small portion of a bone, which has escaped notice and proper treatment.
If the sprain is mild, so that it does not pain you when at rest, then the bandage should be removed every day, and the joint gently rubbed and massaged, and the bandage replaced again.
A mild sprain is a very trifling affair, but a severe one is exceedingly painful and very slow in healing.
I never before realized what a serious thing it is tosprain one's ankle.
I pled my injured arm and a ficticious, vaguely located sprain from the wreck, as an excuse for remaining at home.
Nothing very much the matter, I believe," said she carelessly, "simply a spraincaused by some folly or another.
Bernard must be sent for, the sprain might get worse.
If I tried to lift that bench, I should sprain my wrist.
Father says it is a serious thing for a soldier to sprain his ankle, for it is never so strong again, and may fail him at a critical moment.
I had the misfortune to sprainmy ankle, and this detained me a long time on the way, and may keep me for a couple of days more.
This abominable sprain will hinder my throwing a line, or jolting on Irish roads, and if Cilla is to be in agonies when she sees a man on the horizon, we might as well never have come.
I was to sprainmy ankle," she observed sarcastically.
Then sprain your ankle or get tired, I don't care which.
You don't think the sprain has gone to your head, Fanny?
A sprainmay be a very annoying thing," said Mr. Arbuton dismally.
He'd be damned befo' I'd bind up a sprain for him!
I'm rather afraid he got a sprain when he stumbled into a hole a yard or two back.
Mix in a bottle, shake thoroughly, and bathe the sprain as soon as possible after the accident.
An invaluable remedy for a sprain or bruise is wormwood boiled in vinegar and applied hot, with enough cloths wrapped around it to keep the sprain moist.
If he has a stiff ankle after a sprain he will very likely be cured.
A severe sprain is the sum of the injuries that the parts in and about a joint sustain, when, by their passive efforts, they exercise their maximum power of restraint to prevent luxation.
Dear Sir,—I have very much pleasure in testifying to the marked ability with which you restored my arm in 1880 when suffering from a very severe sprain of the ligaments in consequence of being thrown from my trap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
