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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  2078 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Leg flexibility and strengthening exercises

If you have a good PT she'll tell you to keep doing them. After a while you likely won't need to do them daily. I still stretch every single day regardless of exercising, and do exercises similar to what you have listed, and ankle ones, a minimum of two times a week. It works!





WanderingEng  ·  2078 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What ankle ones do you do? I've been thinking about adding some ankle flexibility/strengthening.

ButterflyEffect  ·  2078 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I do resisted ankle inversions/eversions/dorsiflexions, single leg balance exercises, and have found a way of stretching our muscles/tendons down around my ankle/achilles. The last 4 exercises on this link!

https://myhealth.alberta.ca/Health/aftercareinformation/pages/conditions.aspx?hwid=ad1464

WanderingEng  ·  2077 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks! I haven't tried balancing on a pillow, and it looks like it'll be really good. My ankles don't hurt but they often feel stiff in the morning.