13/08/2025
By now you’ll have followed PEACE and LOVE, and ignored the RICE approach 😅
You’ll have gone through those previous exercises, swelling will start to reduce, movement will begin to return, and weightbearing is starting to feel ‘normal’ 😄
It’s always as simple and smooth as that 😬
But let’s pretend it is, what now?🤔
To help continue the adaptation of the injured tissue, it needs progressive loading to help this. That means bigger ranges of movement and harder exercises, all helping the healing and surrounding muscles and mechanics:
Banded Eversion:
Progress from the ISOs in the first stage, to taking it into outer range eversion. This can often feel tight and painful after rolling an ankle, so complete in a comfortable range
🔑 don’t lift the foot too early, keep the toes slow as you scoop round
Supination-Pronation Steps:
You’re getting the idea, similar exercise, bigger ranges of movementSupination often reduces after a lateral ankle injury, possibly due to pain, weakness and apprehension. Keep these movements familiar 🔑 dial in on the twist of the heel as you move from point to point, to increase muscle recruitment
Kickstand Hinge:
Keep the heel floating but taking it to more of a single leg now. Incorporating keeping the foot ‘stiff’ whilst moving the body around it
🔑 keep some pressure through the big toe and its knuckle throughout
Heel floating reverse lunge:
Calf🤝quadIncorporating the drive through the ball of the foot whilst maintaining some ankle stability, pain can sometimes increase as the knee moves over toe, keep it in comfortable ranges initially
🔑 keep your heel at the same height throughout, it’ll want to raise up as your knee comes forwards
Double-Single Calf Raises:
Use the non-injured side to get the height, maintain it once it’s removed. Keep the range comfortable as you lower down
🔑 use the foot pressure you learnt in the first video to maintain the calf control throughout this and avoid the toes gripping on
Give these a try and DM with any questions to help your ankle sprain!
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