A little more about bands

Last time I talked about bands and why I'm not a fan of them.

I have a couple of other things to discuss about using bands in rehabbing an ankle and why another approach is better.

When you use bands to rehab your sprained ankle, you are forced to move your ankle in the exact direction where it is the most painful for you to move it.

In your mind you associate rehab your sprained ankle with pain and since our minds are programmed to avoid pain, you do not continue to rehab your ankle until it is fully healed.

In addition, the bands require you to "vary" the movement of your ankle in order to rehab the entire joint. Most of the exercises I've seen have you moving your ankle in 2 planes not 3. And since your ankle moves in an unlimited number of directions, your rehab program must allow unlimited freedom of movement to insure that your ankle is as "good as new" once you are done with rehab.

What I'm trying to say is that if you don't pay attention when you are rehabbing and make a conscious effort to move your ankle in numerous directions using the bands, you will only strengthen/stretch tendons, muscles and ligaments in certain parts of your ankle, not all parts.

This "selective" ankle rehab will result in parts of your ankle being stronger than other parts. This is not good, because the ankle, like other parts of your body, needs to be in balance or injury is most certain to occur and to a greater degree than the first time.

Make certain that if you do decide to use the bands that you really focus on moving your ankle in every direction that it moved in prior to your ankle injury. You need to rotate it 360 degrees clockwise and counter clockwise to insure that every part of your ankle joint is being strengthened equally.

If you don't want to focus on rehabbing your ankle and you aren't sure if you can rehab your ankle in a balanced fashion and you'd like a program that has a built in balanced rehab that does not require you to think, then you need to check out my ankle rehab program at www.fastrehab.com .

The program is proven and is the same one that I used to rehab my ankles within 4 days of a major sprain to compete at an NCAA Division I level in basketball.

Why should rehab be hard? You need to have confidence that when you are done with rehabbing your ankle it will be at least as good as new or better than new so you can focus on your favorite activity and not on being worried if your ankle is strong enough or if you will injure it again.

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Why? Because it works. Period.

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