Ankle sprains, they are the number 1 injury throughout sports.
From basketball to tennis as well as volleyball. So far in 2013, a lot more than 70 professional athletes have gone down already and there are a large number of amateur athletes every year who are come to a healthcare facility due to ankle injuries.
Assistance is in route!
In the form of Ektio shoes.
Ektio shoes are doctor invented, clinically tested tennis shoes designed specifically to defend against ankle sprains. Developed by the noted doctor, Dr. Barry Katz along with a team of orthopedists and podiatrists these shoes utilize a special technology to avoid ankle sprains.
This Nyc startup has patented footwear with two inner straps, which will make the foot and the shoe one out of minimizing movement in the shoe. Your ankle won't turn.
This is what Dr. Katz told me prevents ankle sprains.
"We connect the foot and shoe together therefore it doesn't roll."
Katz asserted creating a high end basketball shoe is tougher than it looks.
"It had to have all the attributes of a regular basketball shoe- performance, fit, comfort and add some safety component," explains Katz. "Most importantly, Ektio shoes don't restrict your ability to experience basketball."
Dr. Katz says Ektio footwear is better than braces, better than wraps.
"Just go to a sports wraps and braces trade event. There really are a thousand different braces and such, if a person of them worked, there would not be so many different options, it's telling"
On board with Dr. Katz in this venture are former NBA player John Starks and Basketball Hall of Fame member Rick Barry.
Barry, who has seen everything when it comes to basketball injuries, saw and tried the shoe nuove mercurial, and then gave it to his youngest son, who had been in high school at the time.
"My son wore them as well as in one instance he dropped hard, landing on the foot of another player," says Barry. "He was protected, a physician checked out him after the fact and said he may have broke his ankle if he wasn't wearing these footwear."
Barry says another byproduct of these shoes is the fact that Ektio wearers appear at first sight shooting the ball better when wearing the shoes.
"There is certainly not else available on the market enjoy it," explains the NBA legend. "It will minimize games lost because of injury, they look good, and this new model is easier to put on."
Ektio can also be seeking to take this technology beyond the basketball court.
Dr. Katz says that they are looking at other sports in addition to placing we've got the technology in military tactical books, since ankle sprains would be the number 1 injury in out armed forces. Firefighters and first responders are also natural markets for Ektio.
To go along with his work preventing sprained ankles, Dr. Katz thinks the same technology might be put on football helmets and possible be an answer to the concussion problem that is this type of hot button trouble in the NFL.
 "Your head wasn't designed to wear head gear," adds Dr. Katz. "Just such as the shoes crampon mercurial attach to the foot, the helmet has to attach to the skull.
Like a neuroradiologist, Dr. Katz might be on to something, and also the powers that be, might want to listen.