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Gordon Waddington, AIS Professor of Sports Medicine Research, University of Canberra

Is an ankle sprain also a brain injury? How neuroscience is helping athletes, astronauts and ‘average Joes’

Have you ever thought of an ankle sprain as a brain injury? Most people probably wouldn’t.

However, we are starting to understand how the brain is constantly adapting, known as plasticity.

Even though the damage of an ankle sprain happens at the ankle, there may also be some changes going on in the brain to how it well it senses pain or movement.

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