seconds per exercise

Just place naked (or with sock), foot on 2 squares so that the foot cover the maximum surface of the squares, raise the right leg to have the foot higher than the left knee and maintain the balance 15 seconds, that’s it! repeat the exercise with the other foot.

No required skills, the first time, you may place a hand on chair’s back. Then cross the arms, then move the leg up holding the knee, then knee behind pulling free hand towards butt …, then close the eyes. Gradually you will take confidence, quickly you will progress and master the exercise !

Ankle Foot Exerciser

No equipment, anywhere, even in the water to have smoother sensations, before running to have a more responsive foot and a more efficient stride, after a long trek to release ankle’s tension, Just a few minutes and a small flat space. No excuses to miss it anyday ! .

Spectacular progression

Once you succeed on the exercise 1, following challenges are coming: on exercise 2, change the position of the squares, on exercise 3, interchange front with back square, on exercise 4, place another square at the front...until exercise 25.

Our exercises book will show you an established progression in the difficulty.

However according to your objectives, the sport you practice or after consulting your physiotherapist you may focus on more specific exercises.

Unique design

Packaged in a set of four colored squares, each plate is 4 inches long with a distinctive base to vary the type and level of exercise performed.

Used in pairs, up to 25 exercise combinations can be performed

Black : Full stability : 2 full cylinders placed at the sides of the square

Red and Blue : Medium instability : 2 half cylinders placed in the center of the square

White : Full instability : an half ball shape placed in the center of the square

Ankle Foot Exerciser is Life changing!

When it comes to precision therapeutic ankle and foot exercises, the ability to bias the weakest link and train specifically, this is what matters.

When exercising on the Ankle Foot Exerciser, results are exclusively targeted on ANKLE and FOOT

Low angular clearance allows to target specifically ankle and foot. This is such a difference with other devices which offer a big angular clearance that knee and hip have a predominant role in in the attempt of stabilization,
Angular ankle and foot displacement will limit the action of the inner ear, which is responsible for body balance, and the cerebellar system, which controls coordination,
Placed on 2 instable plates, it allows for each exercise, to dissociate the front foot from the back foot. This is the only way to target specific muscles of the ankle and the foot individually.

YOUR BEST FRIEND to have STABILISED ANKLES

The ankle, or the talocrural region, is the region where the foot and the leg meet.

In motion, the foot orients obliquely from top to bottom, from inside to outside and from front to back around the transverse axis of the talocrural joint. It is not a pure movement at the level of the hindfoot, but rather a combination of two complex movements that cross the three anatomical planes of the body:

-Inversion: combination of plantar flexion, supination and adduction

-Eversion: combination of dorsal flexion, pronation and abduction

When exercising on the Ankle Foot Exerciser, People report it is more difficult to find balance than on any Balance board. Why? Because muscle soreness occurs specifically on the ankle’s muscles. On other devices, muscular reaction is not the same, muscle soreness occurs on the whole low part of the body.

Targeting specifically on the ankle’s muscles:

increase lateral (adduction and abduction) range of motion,
Improve the ankle’s ability for pronation or supination by training specifically Rotation muscles depending on whether you are pronator or supinator,
Enhance a better Dorsiflexion (dorsal Flexion Extension): Ankle dorsiflexion restrictions can hinder performance and lead to dysfunctional movement patterns. Specific exercises based on back foot segments with the white square ((half ball shape) will improve ankle dorsiflexion range of motion.

YOUR BEST FRIEND TO have STABILISED FEET

Man owes a lot to the foot. This organ has no less than 26 bones, 16 joints, 107 ligaments and 20 intrinsic muscles that allowed him to acquire standing, which reoriented its skull, eyes and mouth. The maintenance of standing could not have been done without this slow adaptation. If the foot had not evolved to the appearance, it has today, we would still live in trees or caves.

It is estimated that 70 kilograms per square centimeter is the pressure exerted on the sole of the foot. When exercising on the Ankle Foot Exerciser, dissociated training allows to muscle the back foot and soliciting at the same time the front foot moderately and vice versa.

Targeting specifically on front foot and back foot:

Reinforce foot muscular tonicity, hence dynamize the foot motion fluidity (on walking or running), and avoid all loss of energy,
Reduce foot pain from plantar fasciitis, Achilles’ tendonitis, heel, arch pain. Effective stretching increase range of motion and flexibility which relieve the muscular and articular pains.
Allow to cushion in a better way the transmission of the top-down and bottom-up forces,
Improve both elasticity on reception and rigidity on propulsion,
Give a better balance to the whole body.

YOUR BEST FRIEND to get BACK AFTER INJURY

Sprain of the external lateral ligament of the ankle is, without a doubt, the most common traumatic pathology. The sprain (infringement) of ankle, it is more than 24000 cases per day in USA.

During improper support, the stabilizing muscles of the ankle and foot are not strong enough to prevent excessive twisting of the ankle.

On a movement of plantar flexion adduction and supination stretching very strongly, the foot rocks inside, thus causing a tearing of the external lateral ligament. The foot goes into inversion, the spillers are stretched and do not contract fast enough to counter the lesion movement. The foot loses its ability to react. It therefore needs to:

Rest
Gently mobilize the joint (lymphatic drainage) to evacuate swelling and blood effusion and return to normal range of motion despite the hours spent in the splint.
Re-education

Thanks to early rehabilitation with Ankle Foot Exerciser, the downtime after a sprain is greatly decreased.

The increasing stress of the scar, just below the painful and lesion threshold, will promote:

Constitution of a solid scar thanks to the orientation of the fibers in the axis of the constraints, we speak of "mechanization".
Greater stimulation of the fibers (both nits and rapids) of spillers and inverters.
Improvement of muscle typology with the development of fast fibers of type II.
Improvement of reflex loops and thus allow a rapid and effective contraction.
Optimum reinforcement of inverters that must be stronger than spillers to avoid sprained ankle.

YOUR BEST FRIEND to PREVENT RECIDIVE

There are different degrees of sprain, sometimes we twist our foot without realizing it, which creates micro damage to the ligament. These mini sprains not being treated give risks of recurrence. Chronic instability with episodes of repeated sprains and whose triggering factors are less and less frank, threatens anyone who has already had a serious ligament tear. The recidivism rate is 80%!

A torn ligament regains its continuity after 6 weeks... but it is only solid after 6 months! Throughout this period, recidivism threatens! During this period, the ankle is not at 100% of these abilities, it is vulnerable.

Continuous self-rehabilitation with Ankle Foot Exerciser is the essential weapon to fight against chronic ankle instability and thus minimize the risk of relapse!

No excuses: when you're on the go, the 4 squares are so small that they fit in any (sport) bag!

YOUR BEST FRIEND to IMPROVE PROPRIOCEPTION

Proprioception, also called "neuromuscular reprogramming", refers to all the receptors, pathways and nerve centers involved in the perception, conscious or not, of the relative position of parts of the body in relation to one another.

Having already suffered an injury on foot or ankle can affect somatosensory system and decrease balance. Following an injury, it is therefore important to regain proprioception as quickly as possible, to makes it possible to rehabilitate a stable ankle or foot.

The ligament not only has a mechanical role to limit abnormal joint movements, but it also has a position information mission. Nerve sensors of tension are found in the ligaments, in the case of a sprain these are damaged.

Neuromuscular reprogramming on Ankle Foot Exercisers promotes:

A gradual relearning of perceptions from our own body by acting on the muscle-tendon complex and the motor plate-neuron junction,
The replacement of nerve sensors of ligament tension in new fibers that have been injured during a sprain,
Muscle balance and joint safety, thanks to the succession of AGONIST and ANTAGONISTS exercises.

YOUR BEST FRIEND for a GOOD POSTURE

Strong feet supporting stablised ankles are the foundations tip-top shape

As we progress in life, we start sitting more and walking less (man since his creation has always walked, our grands parents without car walked 3 times more), eventually losing motion and strength. The foot is our base of support and distribute upward and downward force through our body. If the foot is weak, stuck or out of alignment, it leads to an uneven distribution causing ankle pain, back pain, bulged discs, sciatica, hip pain, and knee pain. If we strengthen, realign, and stabilize our ankles, we can change everything.

Simple, fast and effective, the Ankle Foot Exerciser will get you back into the game of life. With regular use, we can keep our whole body in good posture, and pain free to live to the fullest.

YOUR BEST FRIEND to realise your DREAMS

May it be:
For curative actions on treatments linked to foot and heel pains, plantar fasciitis,
Achilles' tendonitis,
To reeducate faster after ankle sprain and hence reducing downtime,
For children to adopt a good posture from early childhood and having
fun when exercising,
For adults to realign spine from the bottom, reduce knee back pains,
For elderly people to tackle ankle instability,
To move faster running, swimming, boxing, ....
For baskets, tennis, soccer, ... players to strengthen feet and ankles,
For Gymnasts, yoga, Pilate practitioners to have a better range of mo-
tion,
For adventurers, challengers, when having a good balance is a must to
go beyond limits,