Disclaimer - I am not a doctor, but I played college football and have first hand experience of injuries from a broken back to a broken fingernail, and everything in between. Please seek the help of a medical doctor before following any of my advice.
The healing of all injuries, even broken bones, can be quickened if you ice it. If you can manage two sessions in the morning of 20 minutes each(45 minutes in between sessions) and twice at night you will be able to manage the swelling that is probably causing a lot of the discomfort.
In order to definately manage the swelling, take 800mg of ibuprofen every 4 hours all day long. That works out to be 4 tablets of 200mg every four hours. If you don't keep that schedule, you'll allow enough time for the swelling to came back and aggrevate the pain.
If your crap is broken, you're probably going to be babying it enough that you won't do any more damage to it. If you are too careless with your movements, you can definately do more damage. If its not broken, no big deal...unlessyou have ligament damage. Nowadays, I don't go to the doctor for a broken bone unless its a compound fracture and the limb isn't straight. Good luck.
