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5 CONCLUSION
Participants with chronic ankle instability display
increased tilt variation when challenged in one-leg
stance on a wobble board. The tilt variation measured
by an instrumented wobble board may serve as a
supplementary objective measure for the clinical
identification of people with functional ankle
instability and as a measure for performance
improvement.
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