How to Improve Proprioception for Ankle Stability With a Soccer Player | Grade III Ankle Sprain

Just eight weeks ago, she encountered a formidable obstacle: a lateral ankle sprain, impacting her ligaments and peroneal tendons. She demonstrates her remarkable progress in another challenging exercise session. In this video, she takes on medial step-ups on the BOSU balance trainer. But there's a unique twist – she's wearing strobe eyewear, deliberately disrupting her vision and proprioception to intensify the workout. This added challenge pushes her boundaries, refining her dynamic joint stability and finely tuning her sensorimotor system.

Most of the research and clinical commentary with stroboscopic eyewear has been after knee surgery, specifically anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) patients. Research has investigated neuroplasticity for visual-motor training.

The clinical reasoning is

❌ Disrupted afferent input
❌ Altered proprioception
❌ Altered efferent output
❌ Change in postural control
❌ Change in movement control

The change in movement control is the reliance on visual feedback to maintain neuromuscular control. Treatment with strobe eyewear is utilized for visual-motor training with criterion-based exercise progressions.

As always — train both legs!

Effective and efficient rehab is criterion-based, not time-based.

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