Ankle Injuries In Sports Players Ankles of sports players are seeing more stress than ever before with increasing competition of organized leagues and tournaments for people of all ages and skill level. Ankle injuries can easily occur during running and jumping with makes playing sports a common way to become injured. There are different kinds of ankle injuries and several ways to prevent them from happening.
According to observations and statistical data from the American College of Sports Medicine, an estimated 25,000 Americans suffer from an ankle sprain each day (“Ankle Injuries in Basketball”1). Half of all the injuries that occur in the ankle are caused by some sort of athletic activity. And more than 40% of that figure
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The ankle is where three bones meet, the tibia and fibula of your lower leg and the talus of your foot. These three bones are held together at the ankle joint by ligaments. Tendons attach muscles to the bones to do the work of making the ankle and foot move, and help stabilize the joints (“Norwood,Karriem Ankle …show more content…
The least common ankle sprain and the most painful one is called, a high ankle sprain or a syndesmotic ankle sprain this happens when the foot is forced to rotate to the outside, away from the other leg by forcing the ankle to twist outward ("The Dreaded “High Ankle Sprain”1). Another way this type of injury could happen is by “hyperdorsiflexion”, this occurs when the toes are pulled toward the shin beyond their normal range of motion when this happens the fibula and tibia pull away from each other causing the ligaments that connect the two bones to tear ("The Dreaded “High Ankle