Hi,

Following an ankle sprain the nerves that normaly control the balance and control (proprioception) of your ankle can become inhibited. It would be more improtant for your long term outcome that you begin some balance exercises to retrain your ankles proprioception and to help prevent re-injury. I start my patients off with simple single leg standing exercises , aim to do this 3 times a day for 2-5 minutes (without falling over) and you can rest every 30 seconds. When this becomes easy progress to an uneven surface or try with your eyes closed.

Obviously in the meantime you may want to carrying on exercising and your current ankle support isn't comfortable. Have you tried taping it? I find this really helps my patients with unstable ankles and it is also a more comfortable and cheaper option than some supports.

Tom