Treatment of common deficits associated with chronic ankle instability

Sports Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 207-224

  Holmes, Alison ^a   Delahunt, Eamonn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE INSTABILITY; ANKLE SPRAIN; ATHLETE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BODY POSTURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXERCISE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PROPRIOCEPTION; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW;

ANKLE INJURIES; ANKLE JOINT; EXERCISE MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SPRAINS AND STRAINS;

EID: 62349126530     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-200939030-00003     Document Type: Review

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