Plantar Flexion Strengthening With Increased Dorsiflexion

Description

You are standing with the front of the foot to be worked on placed on a step (or a stair), while the heel and the other foot are in the air, a folded towel (or another object) will be placed under the toes of the supporting foot to increase the ankle's angle. Your body weight is placed backwards, at the heel, so that the foot is in a dorsiflexion position, which may cause a sensation of calf stretching. You will perform an ankle extension by rising onto the tip of your toes and then slowly return to the starting position.

Settings

Equipment

TowelStep

Positions

Stand Up

Muscle groups

Plantar flexors

Difficulty

Difficult

Movement

Extension

Contraction mode

ConcentricEccentric