What does keeping a leg lifted or elevated do for Recovery. I keep being told to keep my leg higher than the rest of my body I'm not really sure how that's helping anything I have a sprained knee; I thought it was a charlie horse I thought it was a muscle spasm but after 4 hours of not being able to walk and screaming at the top of my lungs...they broke down the door carried me to the emergency room -put a brace on it gave me crutches and basically I just went and got 600 milligrams of Tylenol taking two every four hours and it seems to help the pain but what is the purpose of this leg elevation?
