Okay, that does it. Attempting the Karen Voight exercise in this week's LA Times Health Section, that is. I usually enjoy her exercises - occasionally need some practice or strengthening to do them properly - but this is the first one that I've been structurally unable to do. My ankles don't dorsiflex beyond about, oh, maybe 10 degrees. I'm sure that's at least part of the reason I have recurrent Achilles tendon soreness. It takes quite a bit of concentration (and tibialis anterior) to pick my toes up enough to get a midfoot strike when I run, too.

I do stretch my calves and Achilles pretty much daily, but the ROM hasn't improved a bit. It's a problem for me when I set up the brake pedal on my motorcycle. In fact, my first sportbike was the first time I learned that my ankles don't bend as much as "normal" people's. The weird thing is, I'm pretty flexible in most of my other joints.

Am I just stuck this way, or will stretching differently or more frequently help me increase my ankle ROM?