22 Aug Foam Pad, Ball Toss Forward
HOW: Place a foam pad on the ground. Stand in the middle of the foam pad with both feet. Keep your balance on the pad while you toss a ball into a wall playing catch with yourself. FEEL: You should feel your lower leg...
22 Aug Ankle Inversion And Eversion – Ball
HOW: Begin in a seated position with a ball underneath your foot. Roll the ball side to side controlling the ball with your foot. Your foot creates the inversion(going in) and eversion(going out) movement while the ball rolls with it. FEEL: You should feel...
22 Aug Ankle Dorsiflexion And Plantarflexion AROM – Ball
HOW: Begin in a seated position with a ball underneath your foot. Roll your foot to where your heel is in the front and your toes are pointing up. Follow that by rolling backwards on the back to end with your toes pushing into...
22 Aug Ankle Circle – Ball
HOW: Begin in a seated position with a ball underneath your foot. Roll your foot to the outside of the ball, then forwards putting your heel on the front of the ball, then the inside of your foot back to the starting position making...
07 Aug Seated Ankle Pump
HOW: Start in a seated position with your feet flat on the ground. From here, push into the ground with your toes lifting your heels up, followed by returning to the starting position and lifting your toes off the ground. Alternate bringing your heels...
25 Jul Squat Hold – Heel Raise
HOW: Start by standing with your feet about shoulder width apart. Bend your knees, hinge forward slightly at the hips and squat down to a comfortable position. While holding this squat, push into the ground with your toes and raise your heels off of...
25 Jul Foot Pronation Supination
HOW: Begin in a standing position with both feet almost together. Rotate your body to the left and right as far as you can go while keeping your heel and toes on the ground. Let your lower leg rotate as one foot pushes into...
17 Jul Single Leg Heel Raise – Big Toe Extension
HOW: Place a folded towel on the ground. Stand on the towel with just your big toe on the towel. Use a wall or something to hold onto with balance. Bend the other knee up off of the ground. Push into the towel and...
17 Jul Seated Eccentric Ankle Eversion – Band
HOW: In a seated position, loop a band around the balls of your feet. Push one foot out to the side using no tension. With the opposite foot, pull the band back across creating tension in the band while the other foot is holding...
17 Jul Seated Ankle Eversion – Band
HOW: Begin in a seated position with a band looped around the balls of your feet. Keep your feet mostly flat on the ground and also keep your knees in the same spot to avoid hip involvement. Push the band out with just your...
