• The Best Ankle Braces for Sprained Ankle Injuries

    Although the team here at PhysioRoom can’t offer you a miracle cure for your sprained ankle, we can provide you with a particular set of ankle supports and braces that can aid you on your road to recovery. Whether you’ve been unfortunate enough to have been involved in a crunching tackle out on the football … Read more

    PhysioRoom’s top ankle supports and ankle braces

    So, you’ve found yourself with an injured ankle. Fate has cruelly conspired to roll your foot under you and make the next few weeks of your life somewhat inconvenient. It could have been in work, at home or more likely on the field, but whatever the cause, ankle sprains and fractures can happen anywhere, at … Read more

    Why does Andy Murray wear ankle braces?

    Whether it’s Serena Williams applying kinesiology tape, or Rafael Nadal wrapping his knee for protection, it’s not uncommon to see elite professional tennis players competing while wearing some form of extra support. With that in mind, even the more casual tennis fans may have noticed that 2016 Wimbledon champion Andy Murray always seems to play ... Read more

    Sprained Ankle Update

    As I recovered from my sprained ankle, I gradually reduced the wearing of an ankle support, until I wasnִ wearing it at all for speed sessions on the road and gentle training runs off road, but was not sufficiently confident to leave my ankle unsupported during longer or harder training sessions on the fells.

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    Treating the Most Common Sports Injury: A Sprained Ankle

    Although I celebrated my 60th birthday in 2010, I am still active and competitive, these days concentrating mainly on running and cycling. To mark my birthday, I completed three big challenges:

      • Ran the Pendle Way, a local long-distance footpath (43 miles) in 9 hours;
      • Completed the Joss Naylor Lakeland Challenge (47 miles) in 14 hours;
      • Cycled from Coniston to Interlaken (1,000 miles in 10 days) to take part in the Jungfrau Marathon, which I completed in 4hours 11 minutes.

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