Best affordable ankle braces?

As far as a cure, the best thing you can do is fill up a 5 gallon jug and put plenty of ice in it. The more the better. Put your foot in for at least 15 min periods. During that time try spelling the alphabet with your foot. Your foot might seem comfortable with the first 3 to 5 min in the bucket but depending on how bad the sprain is you will feel a very sharp pain after a while. If it's pretty bad then it will hurt even worse but the longer it's in there the better. Of course don't keep it in there to long. I would do the ice bucket as many times as you can giving about a 30 to 40 minute break in between.

Ankle braces: as far as ankle braces the ones that I mainly use will have two straps that will run along the front of the ankle, wrap around the heel and back up to the side of the ankle. Normally they arnt too expensive like around 30 bucks at a pharmacy or Walgreens. There are ankle braces with metal plates in them but it's somewhat dangerous because if there is too much pressure like if you fall and you ankle wants to give you will actually break the tibia or fibula which is defiantly worst. There is no ankle brace that can completely stop sprains and once you sprain it once you're more likely to sprain it again. The best thing you can do is also go to maybe 2 to 3 sessions at a physical therapy office. They should give you some exercises and electrical stem depending on the place. Another great thing is too ride a bike or use elastic bands and tie it around your foot and hold the band while you make up and down movements with it.

Oh well I hope you find this information helpful. The reason I know this is because currently I'm a high school football player with many ankle sprains. So I'm really just relaying the information my doctors told me. But oh well good luck