A Summary Of Unilateral Instability

Unilateral instability is a very common orthopedic injury seen in different types of athletes. Even though, there are multiple clinical research studies focused on this issue, the frequency of these injuries remains high. It is unclear the exact cause to this type of injury, especially those cases that involve ankle instability. Research has shown that there are two factors that could contribute to this instability: Mechanical instability and functional stability. Mechanical instability is present when the ankle moves beyond its physiologic limit of range of motion. Meanwhile, it has been proved that functional instability is caused by insufficiencies in proprioception and neuromuscular control.

As it was mentioned before, chronic ankle instability