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148. How to assess ankle sprains & start rehab with Zoe Russell

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ACL Injuries - Do You Have a Balance Test on the Uninjured Side?

If they're highly irritable, I'd certainly look at their figure eight. If there is some research out there in balance saying that obviously on our injured side, the center of balance may change when we've got an ankle injury. So those that might have force plates in your clinic, you might want to try that on just the uninjured side and then compare that later on as you get them further along their progress. But if there's an opportunity, particularly if we've got a high level athlete and we know that we're trying to get them back to some sort of specific activity, I would still try if I could to do a balance test on the uninjured Side.

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