Assessing and training the foot and ankle

The foot and ankle complex plays a critical role in movement efficiency, injury resilience, and performance, but it often remains an overlooked area of assessment and training. In this roundtable discussion, Romain Tourillon, Colin Griffin, and Athol Thomson share their insights on how our understanding of this region is evolving across research and applied practice. The conversation explores modern approaches to screening, strength and stiffness profiling, return-to-play progressions, and the integration of foot and ankle work into broader performance programs. Drawing from their experiences across elite sport and clinical environments, the panel discusses how to balance structure, function, and load to optimise both injury prevention and performance. Whether your focus is rehabilitation or high-performance training, this session delivers practical guidance on how to better assess, train, and protect one of the most fundamental systems in human movement....