Treatment
Ankle injury
According to the American Academy of Family Practice, an estimated 1 million people in the U.S. visit a physician for an acute ankle injury each year. A sprained ankle is one of the most common injuries faced by anyone who participates in sport and exercise. As a matter of fact, you don’t even have to be engaged in any exercise to suffer from a sprained ankle. It seems that even while minding your own business, an ankle sprain can occur.
Risk Factors
The study by GD McKay and colleagues on Ankle injuries in basketball: injury rate and risk factors. History of ankle injury was the strongest predictor of the occurrence of ankle injuries. Basketball players who had previously injured their ankle were almost five times more likely to injure an ankle than their previously uninjured counterparts.
They Also highlighted, Players who did not complete a general stretching program me as part of their warm-up routine were 2.6 times more likely to injure an ankle than players who stretched.
