Sprained your ankle? The Ankle Sprain app provides guidance, by means of pictures, text and verbal descriptions, on acute care used to optimum effect. The App also includes descriptions of 20 rehabilitation exercises of increasing difficulty and 6 taping techniques using sports tape/kinesiology tape, which aim to help you be able to rely on the sprained ankle again for exercise and sports, as well as reduce the risk of repeated sprains. There is also practical advice on when it is appropriate to return to exercise/sport.
Ankle sprain is absolutely one of the most common injuries in sport and exercising. It is also one of the injuries where it is possible to dramatically reduce the time the sportsperson/exerciser is away from his/her activity, by correctly applying acute treatment, rehabilitation and taping. All too many of those suffer an ankle sprain end up with a foot which is unstable and often suffer repetitions of the same injury because of insufficient rehabilitation. By carrying out the rehabilitation exercises included in this iPhone application and by applying the taping methods described there is every possibility of avoiding several ankle sprains and regaining the function of a foot that can be relied on.
The Ankle Sprain iPhone application describes, with illustrations and instructive text, the handling of an ankle sprain from acute care to rehabilitation exercises, taping and return to sport. The bandaging and taping instruction sections also contains text from a speaker’s voice so that instructions can be seen and heard whilst at the same time participating in practical exercises.
This application has been developed by Bodynfo in collaboration with two of Sweden’s leading experts in handling acute sports injuries and their successful rehabilitation, Annica Näsmark, a physiotherapist, and Tommy Eriksson, a chiropractor.

Annica Näsmark: A private practising physiotherapist who has worked with the Swedish National lady’s team, the girls- and youth team in football for many years. She has considerable experience in educating football trainers and in the rehabilitation of injuries sustained by active football players. She is a member of the Medical Committee of the Swedish Football Association.
Tommy Eriksson, (TommyTape): A chiropractor with earlier experience working with two of Sweden’s National teams: football and skiing. The latest 25 yeas he have been working with the National team of athletics and this year (2010)also with the Swedish Davies Cup team. During the Athletics World Championships in Helsinki he was the one who successfully taped Carolina Klüft’s sprained ankle when she took gold in the pentathlon.

Bodynfo:
Torsten Larsson: Concept and text. Private practising physiotherapist with many years of experience in sports injuries. He also works with information and training material in his own company Bodynfo.
Bertil Nordström: Illustrator with 25 years experience in the industry and specialising in his much appreciated illustrations of the human body.

The Ankle Sprain application has been designed, on the basis of the combined knowledge and experience of the authors, to give practical support in acute care, rehabilitation exercising and taping after an ankle sprain. There is also advice in the material about when it is appropriate to return to exercise/sport after an ankle sprain.