Injuries are lame, but the best advice really is to just rest when hurt.. I rekindled the fire recently and was learning news tricks pretty much everyday. That and landing all my tricks consistently. Then the cockiness got to me and I decided to jump off some big shit in some thinner vulc shoes.. I want to say I got an "advanced heel bruise" from landing directly on my heel as a bail. Since then, it's hurt to apply any sort of pressure to my heel (evening walking) and naturally I'm fucking bummed.
To make matters worse, I made the mistake of attempting to skate like normal immediately afterwards. I'm only 18 and everyday I wake up pissed at myself for getting hurt and making the injury worse by skating on it so soon.
Gathering the willpower to just stop and rest is the first step to healing. I feel it slowly healing, but I know it'll be a few more weeks to a month before I'm 100% again. Take time to meditate on healing the injury and allow your body the chance to rest.
Reading through the thread, it seems common consensus that drinking and smoking definitely deter the body and it's health (no shit sherlock..) Fucking teenage friends and their lust for partying.. Although it seems like something fun to do when you're hurt, you wake up feeling like shit and your body requires even more time to heal. Eat healthy, have a healthy and unclouded mind, stay positive, and don't skate when you feel as though you physically cannot. Was just talking to a homie of my mine today who's been out for almost a year from getting hit by a car. He wants to skate so badly and I can take it from him as inspiration to take a break once in a while.
To sum it up. Stretch, exercise, eat right, work out the specific area of injury (within limit), lay off the drugs (more for those who do them than you probably), and focus on healing.
You got it. We all got it..