Best Ankle Braces

Athletic endeavors often include jumping and running, creating high impact on your ankles, and exposing them to potential injuries. To both protect and prevent strains, sprains, swelling, and pain, athletes often turn to ankle braces for added support and stabilization, while enjoying the compression aspects some braces can provide, potentially improving blood flow. Finding your favorite ankle brace at CVS can include choosing between those that are ankle stabilizers with adjustable straps, ankle sleeves made from a stretchy, flexible material that also provides compression, or ankle braces that offer arch support.

Playing volleyball throws your ankles into all kinds of unnatural positions and wearing an ankle brace may help to support your joints in the myriad of abnormal landings, twists, and turns that accompany every game. Volleyball players often turn to kinesiology tape from CVS as well as ankle braces that feature non-rigid support and stretchy neoprene or nylon. The added stability of an ankle brace may help some players in their efforts to avoid injury.

Rough and tumble movements fill the field when playing football, so many players find it beneficial to incorporate an ankle brace into their protective equipment. Lace up or adjustable strap ankle stabilizers may help to lessen the damage a player experiences when they take a hard hit, and fit conveniently under standard gear and uniforms.

Jumping for the net and landing, running, and darting around players up and down the court are all movements every basketball player experiences in a standard game of shooting hoops. These fluid movements are best supported by ankle stabilizers that fit inside a basketball shoe and can help in the inversion and eversion of the ankle. Kinesiology tape and gently compressing ankle sleeves are a welcome tool for many basketball players to aid in their efforts at avoiding rolling their ankles.