Ankle Stability Exercises | Balance Your Ankles

Ankle stability exercises can be a great way to assist in the recovery of an injured ankle. Here are a couple of great tips to on how to improve your ankle mobility, intended to help you self mobilise your ankles and to teach ankle balance (or proprioception). This is integral for ankle stability, helping to prevent a recurrence of an old injury.

If you've just injured your ankle, please chat with us or your health care professional to ensure you haven't fractured your ankle or sustained another type of nasty injury.

• How do you treat ankle instability?

  Ankle instability can be treated through strengthening the muscles around the ankle joint, avoiding high-impact activities or sports, and wearing properly fitted ankle braces. Watch our video above on helpful tips on how to improve your ankle mobility with Dr. Greg Sher’s ankle stability exercises.

• What exercises strengthen your ankles?

  Ankle circles:

  Sit on a flat surface with your knees bent. Lift either your right or left leg and do 20-30 circles with your ankle in a clockwise direction as you keep the rest of your leg straight. Circle slowly and work through the entire range of motion. Pause and go counter-clockwise doing an equal number of reps.

• How do you fix weak ankles?

  In order to fix weak ankles without surgery you could try to lose weight, wear proper footwear that is comfortable and fits correctly, or by strengthen your ankles by doing various exercises such as calf raises.

• Can weak ankles be strengthened?

  Weak ankles can be strengthened through various workouts:

  1. Toe pick-ups/curls

  2. Bent-knee wall stretch

  3. Calf raises

  4. Towel tug

  5. Ankle pump up & down

  6. Ankle roll

  7. Resistance push