Many volleyball players wear ankle braces to protect themselves from an injury or a re-injury. A common thought among those that do not wear ankle braces or those who only wear them during rehab is that bracing weakens your ankles. I’m here to tell you that ankle braces do not weaken your ankles.
Dave Jones, who plays for VC Leipzig e.V. in Germany and who posts at Volleyball Base, dug into this question a little bit further and found “that bracing will actually work to enhance your proprioceptive input [sensory feedback for muscle control] , not override it”(Volleyball Base, Jan. 14, 2008).If you still aren’t convinced that ankle braces do not weaken your ankles, check out Dave’s complete article (cited sources intact) here.
Ankle braces or not, that is the question: Part 2
Ankle braces or not, that is the question: Part 3
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