David Hillard - Lateral Ankle Sprains
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APA Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist
David completed a post graduate Masters In Sports Physiotherapy and has a special interest in lower limb rehabilitation (hip, knee, and ankle), tendon pathologies, and shoulder injuries.
Working with basketball teams and players remains a core focus of David's work, and he has previously developed return to training rehab progressions, injury prevention and screening programs. As part of his varied sports coverage experience, David has worked with :
- Australian Boomers mens national basketball team
- Sydney Kings NBL
- Sydney University Flames WNBL
- Netball NSW teams
- Rowing Australia (bronze provider)
In this Sports MAP Masterclass David takes viewers through his extensive knowledge and experience on managing lateral ankle sprains in sport.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the mechanism of the injury and contributing factors to lateral ankle sprains
- Discuss key subjective questions and differential diagnosis for lateral ankle injuries
- Understand the associated acute pathologies of inversion ankle injuries
- Demonstrate detailed lateral ligament assessment, objective and functional ankle assessments
- Understand the importance of a detailed rehabilitation approach and key criteria through progressing through rehabilitation stages
- Demonstrate techniques to regain ankle dorsiflexion
- Discuss the relationship between hip strength and ankle injuries
- Demonstrate how to incorporate ball skills into rehabilitation
- Explain risk reduction for recurrent ankle sprains
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Lateral Ankle Sprains
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David Hillard
David graduated from the University of SA in 1999, and has completed a post graduate Masters In Sports Physiotherapy. He is also an ASCA accrediated Level 1 Strength and Conditioning coach.
He has a special interest in lower limb rehabilitation (hip, knee, and ankle), tendon pathologies, and shoulder injuries.
As Zone 34’s senior Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist David offers consultations for complex cases and second opinion.
Through our Telehealth service he provides video consultations to basketballers around Australia and Worldwide. This service has proven to be extremely valuable to Australian athletes based in US NCAA College programs.
Information on the management and rehabilitation of common basketball injuries is available on David’s website basketball.physio