A 4-week wobble board exercise programme improved muscle onset latency and perceived stability in individuals with a functionally unstable ankle

The influence of a balance training program on the electromyographic latency of the ankle musculature in subjects with no history of ankle injury

“…The results demonstrated a decrease in peroneal latency time after the training period. More recently a very similar study to ours, but with subjects with ankle instability (Clark & Burden, 2005), showed that a balance training program with a wobble board, with three training sessions per week, in a total of four weeks, significantly reduced peroneal latency time. A training program which included several exercise methods, with the duration of six weeks, with three sessions in each week, was applied to a group of healthy subjects (Linford et al, 2006).…”

“…It seems that a multifaceted intervention can be more efficient in preventing ankle injuries, when compared to a single intervention training protocol. The studies that were presented here (Clark & Burden, 2005;Eils & Rosenbaum, 2001;Linford et al, 2006) give support to this idea, but more research is needed in order to verify this hypothesis, because there is a lack of research on prevention of the initial injury.…”

“…A custom-designed trap-door mechanism, similar to that used by other researchers (Clark & Burden, 2005;Konradsen et al, 1997;Lofvenberg, Karrholm, Sundelin, & Ahlgren, 1995;Sheth et al, 1997;Vaes et al, 2002), was used to simulate the inversion movement of the ankle sprain (Fig. 3).…”

“…The balance training program consisted of seven exercises (Clark & Burden, 2005;Mcguine & Keene, 2006), that had a duration of 30 s each, with an interval of 15e30 s. In each session, the subjects were asked to do the training protocol twice, with a 1 min interval between training programs. Each subject successfully did two training sessions per week, in a total of eight training sessions during a month.…”

“…Several authors (Clark & Burden, 2005;Emery, Cassidy, Klassen, Rosychuk, & Rowe, 2005;Mcguine & Keene, 2006;Michell, Ross, Blackburn, Hirth, & Guskiewicz, 2006;Mohammadi, 2007;Sheth, Yu, Laskowki, & An, 1997;Stasinopoulos, 2004;Verhagen, Van Der Beek, Twisk, Bouter, Bahr, & Van Mechelen, 2004) have used ankle dish training as an effective form of treatment to reduce proprioception deficits, decrease peroneal latency time and increase postural control. Ankle disk training has been shown to significantly reduce the recurrence of ankle sprains (Verhagen et al, 2004).…”