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Including Detailed Instructions for Old Ankle Sprain Rehab Exercise
DW: I’m going to show a quick foot
retracting exercise that I give to a lot of clients to rehab an old ankle
sprain or to help find better balance in their feet.
Most of us in some point in our life have had an ankle
sprained or two or ten and that causes the ankle almost all the time to roll
outwards this way. You have a compensation that your brain does rather than
leave your foot rolling out sideways because it doesn’t feel right just walking
on the edge. And that is to externally rotate your hip or your knee or both and
that allows the foot to fall more that way.
You’ll see some clients will show you this one foot out
other clients will show you the other and some show both, right? This is really
a long-term compensation for a stuck ankle that never got unstuck. What’s
supposed to happen when you walk is that you roll through the ball of your big
toe when you come forward that way right and that should stay contacting as the
very last thing until you bring your foot forward.
With an old ankle sprain you’ll get some version of this
and that big toe never contacts the floor completely. And so to relearn how to
do that I have a very simple exercise!
