Development of a Physical Rehabilitation Therapy Model for Functional Ankle Instability with Strengthening Exercise and Proprioceptive Exercise Methods

Abstract

Functional ankle instability is a subjective feeling experienced by a person in the ankle that feels unsteady after a history of repeated injuries to the ankle which results in proprioceptive and neuromuscular deficits as well as decreased sports performance to end one's career in certain sports due to the emergence of disabilities. The purpose of this study was to develop a model of physical rehabilitation therapy in improving ankle functional stability in functional ankle instability using Strengthening exercise and Proprioceptive Exercise methods. The research method in this research is research and developmentt, namely by developing a training method in the case of functional ankle instability and a product test method that resulted in the research sample using an experimental method with a pre-test and post-test design. The therapeutic model produced in this study was tested on 20 male research samples, the study was conducted 3 times a week for 6 weeks with the research instrument using the Cumberland Ankle Instability Tool. The results showed that the provision of Strengthening Exercise and Proprioceptive Exercise on functional ankle instability had a significant effect on improving the value of ankle functional stability with a pre-test mean of 20.70 ± 1.418 and a post-test mean of 25.65 ± 1.137 with a value of p = 0.000 (p <0.05). In conclusion, the combination of Strengthening Exercise and Proprioceptive Exercise can improve ankle functional stability in cases of functional ankle Instability.