anyone have any recommendations for good ankle braces that last more than a year? maybe i played too much this past year but i bought in them september 2010 and it's now almost completely fallen apart. don't know if a year is reasonable but i feel it unnecessary to buy them every year. here's the link to the ones i've used since high school. my ankles are pretty much shot for the rest of my life. can't play without them. http://www.amazon.com/Ossur-Form-An...sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1320001378&sr=1-46
You sound like me with your ankle problems. I'm 23 and have played religiously since high school. I would never play basketball without ankle braces.
Seconded on the ASO brace; I normally don't use braces because I don't want my ankles to get dependent on the support, but when I turned an ankle bad enough to need crutches, I got an ASO to help out in getting back up to full speed; was really impressed at how thin and light it was; didn't even need to go up a shoe size or anything.
how was its durability? the one i have may not be the most durable but it's sure as hell stable. my roommate had one of those but sans strap and he still rolled his ankle in it and i never seemed to trust it since. although strap makes a huge difference.
taping becomes ineffective though after like 30 minutes or so. i taped them in high school when a trainer did it for me but even she said after 20 minutes of actual running its effectiveness drops due to bending of the tape.
yea i just started working out lower body again in like 3 years. although my ankle tendons are somewhat looser than they should be. only way to fix it permanently would be some sort of surgery from what i've heard. but yea good rec on working out lower leg muscles again
check out your knee's mobility. Usually you want you ankle to be fairly flexible, so that the knee can be more stable, since they feed off of each other being joint neighbors. In your case, if your ankles have too much mobility, then the knee may become too stable, or stiff. Maybe your legs dont have much bend to them. Could be weak knee flexion, which involves mainly the hamstrings and gastrocnemius. If that's the case, then working on your ability to open and close your knee may bring more stability to your ankle.
