A friend of mine is the Medical Director at a hospital. Hospital stats show that 23,000 ankles are sprained per day. Ouch. I have sprained both of mine. The right ankle got it when I was a freshman in high school. I landed on a foot after grabbing a rebound. I have rolled my right ankle a few times per year ever since then. The left ankle joined the injured joint list almost two decades later. This time I was playing basketball on a funny carpet floor. I can’t remember how I sprained it, but I remember going down. One out of eleven players playing basketball will sprain their ankle every year. That is about one per team, or if you look at it for yourself, it means that you will go down once every eleven years on average.
Now, I wear something preventative. Six weeks is too much time to be benched.
