How to do ankle taping

Have you damaged ligaments in your ankle that are on the outside or lateral component of the joint? Or, do you play sport where you are concerned about spraining your ankle?  Have you tried taping your ankles and found it hard to remember what direction to put the tape, or where to start at all?

Nadine, our Physiotherapist at Vector Health and Performance takes you through an easy taping technique for ankles.

Vector Health and Performance coordinates taping clinics for sporting clubs, employers and schools. We can either come to you, or you can come to our purpose built facility and we can teach you how to effectively strap ankles, knees, and shoulders. Please call us on 4927 8190 or email reception@vectorhealth.stagingarea.net for more information about this.

What can I do about recurrent ankle injuries?

If you have an ankle injury, or especially if you have had multiple strains, there are a lot of easy to do strategies that we can help you with, to rehabilitate you, or to help prevent ongoing ankle sprains.  Please check out a video that Nadine posted about some easy to do, everyday ankle stability exercises that she advises people to perform for 5 minutes per day.

The video and article is HERE if you are interested.