Research Paper On Ankle Sprains

Ankle sprains are a very typical injury in the world of soccer, and is even the most common that often times recur in the athlete. In Order to get a better understanding of these ankle injuries, they took a very meticulous study on the injuries, tracking different areas such as how the injury occurred, how long it put them out for, etc. 91 different soccer clubs examined the players’ injuries and were recorded with a guideline of when, how, and where it was done. All together there were 1011 injuries relating to the ankle where six players got surgery and 19 got injections to help heal it. Most of the injuries occurred because of the one on one contact with the players, which caused 59 percent of them. Most ankle sprains take less than a month to rehabilitate therefore the common occurrence of the injury is more severe than the recovery.

It is very important to have endurance training in ankle rehabilitation to avoid tiredness and to have more energy at the end of practices. There was an unsuspected high statistic showing that 32 percent of the athletes were wearing ankle support when the injury happened when it was supposed to prevent