ACPES Journal of Physical Education, Sport, and Health 1 (1) (2021) ACPES Journal of Physical Education, Sport, and Health http://journal.unnes.ac.id/sju/index.php/ajpesh The Effect of Balance Training on Ankle Sprains in Badminton Play- ers Sri Sumartiningsih  Department of Sports Science, Faculty of Sports Science, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia DOI: https://doi.org/10.15294/ajpesh.v1i1.46300 Abstract Ankle sprains are common injuries in variety sports. It’s happened 54- 66.9% occur in badmin- ton players. This study design used review articles study. A literature search was conducted systematically using ACSM, AJSM, BJSM, OJSM and human sport and exercise databases to retrieve articles published until December 2013. Controlled trials and controlled laboratory studies comparing different strategies to promote early recovery of ankle sprain were included. There are limited studied in balance training program and ankle sprain. Five control and treat- ment study were reviewed. The study reported that balance training program significantly to reduce ankle sprains. The Balance training program can be applied to reduce risk ankle sprains in badminton players. Article Info Article History Submitted 9 January 2021 Revised 22 April 2021 Accepted 16 June 2021 Keywords ankle sprain, balance training, badminton  Correspondence Author: Sekaran, Semarang City, Central Java, Indonesia E-mail: sri.sumartiningsih@mail.unnes.ac.id e-ISSN 2797-0426 INTRODUCTION Ankle sprains are the most common injuries in variety of sport likes football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, badminton, running and others (Gioftsidou et al., 2012; Cumps et al., 2007; Hoy et al., 1994). Ankles injuries in badminton players ankle 54%- 66,9% caused by non-contact injuries (Hoy et al., 1994; Kroner et al., 1990). The incidence has been reported injury risk was 57% in badminton and injury rate was 0.9 injuries per player per 1000 training hours (Goh et al., 2013). In addition the ankle sprains has reported to be between 2 and 7 per 1000 person years (Bridgman et al., 2003; Holmer et al., 1994; Waterman et al., 2010). The lost of training times, the value of process ankle sprains can be expensive for each players and health care system (Hupperets et al., 2010; Verhagen et al., 2005). Recently, the treatment type exercise or control and ankle sprain history showed that exercise program in balance using elastic tubing as a perturbation force for indi- vidual improve in subject with and without a history of of ankle sprain following four weeks of elastic resistance exercise (Han et al., 2009). The objective of this review was to explore the current literature on the effectiveness of balance training program treatment for ankle sprain in badminton players.