COMPARISONS OF ANKLE FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE CHRONIC ANKLE INSTABILITY AND THE ABILITY OF BALANCE CONTROL OF THE DOMINANT FOOT

Abstract

The aims of this work were to compare the ankle function performance in chronic ankle instability and to study the ability of balance control of the dominant foot. Subject and Method: The participants were healthy Nakhon Phanom University’s athletes’ between the ages of 18-23 years old. Physical examination and a questionnaire were collected from fourteen male and nine female athletes. The participants performed ankle functional performance test, functional reach test (FRT), and multiple directional reach test (MRT). Result: The performance test result of dominant foot showed that there was a significant different between male and female subjects. However, there was no different on the hexagon hop test of the left dominant foot of both genders. The FRT and MRT test results revealed that there was no significant difference between subjects with right or left dominant foot. Conclusion: The two groups have different perceptions of impaired function and anatomical function of the ankle on their own. The both groups are in the normal range of the balance
control test.
(Journal of Sports Science and Technology 2016; 16(1) : 107-116 )
Keywords: Chronic ankle instability, Ankle functional performance test, Static and dynamic standing balances
*Corresponding author: Panatsada Awikunprasert
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science,
Khon Kaen University,Khon Kaen, Thailand 40002
E-mail: panaaw@kku.ac.th