Improving Ankle and Knee Joint Stability: Proprioceptive Balancefit Discs Drills

First book to present several physical exercises using BalanceFit discs aimed to enhance the ankle and knee joint stability, Improving Ankle and Knee Joint Stability. BalanceFit Drills is addressed to a more specialised audience (coaches, physical trainers, Physical Education teachers or students). Why BalanceFit discs? Mainly, the joint stability can be improved using tools such as BOSSU, Wobble Board, balance board etc. But we think that the BalanceFit discs, in this case, are most appropriate for the drills we proposed. In comparison with the balance boards and the wobble boards that have a flat, hard foot contact surface, the BalanceFit discs strain the plantar surface of the foot right through that mobile and flexible contact area. Hence, the stress found in the ankle joint is not reduced to controlled and limited eversions and inversions, dorsiflexions and plantar flexions, but there are also tendencies to slide back and forward, and all of these movements can be combined. The complexity of the exercises can be directed and controlled also through the degree of inflation of the discs. Another great advantage of using the BalanceFit discs is that many of the drills presented here can be adapted for a multitude of athletic disciplines, from sportive games to winter sports.