Rehabilitation exercises by changing the positions of the resistances and their effect on the range of motion and some physical abilities of the (rugby) football players with ankle sprain

Abstract

The ankle joint is the joint most frequently injured in sports in which lateral ankle sprains are most common. One of the sports in which lateral ankle sprains frequently occur is rugby due to contact forces or from rotational forces during a rapid change of direction. Or while touching other players according to the nature of the movements in this game that involve speed and communication, and the research problem crystallizes in how to rehabilitate the ankle joint after injury in a way that guarantees an increase in the strength of this joint and the speed of the player's return to play and the speed of recovery from injury and the recovery of the physical level quickly and better . Therefore, the researcher resorted to preparing rehabilitative exercises based on improving the muscle strength of the muscles surrounding the ankle joint by applying different resistances according to the nature of the movement of this joint, which is considered one of the second joints in motion (flexion, extension, rotation right and left) in order to increase the efficiency of all muscles working on this joint according to those movements The exercises were applied to a sample of 6 rugby players at the age of 18 years, and the principle of changing the positions of the resistances on the injured player's foot was adopted when training. Push when changing direction and speed of the skill. The researcher recommended the need to apply the exercises that were used in the research in the case of ankle sprain due to their effectiveness in improving the knee function of the foot and conducting research and similar studies for other games and on the ankle joint.