Altered Neuromuscular Control and Ankle Joint Kinematics during Walking in Subjects with Functional Instability of the Ankle Joint

Abstract

The altered kinematics observed in this study could explain the reason subjects with functional instability experience repeated episodes of ankle inversion injury in situations with only slight or no external provocation. It is hypothesized that the observed increase in peroneus longus activity may be the result of a change in preprogrammed feed-forward motor control.