Are Foot Stretchers Good?

Can you achieve a good pointe without a Foot Stretcher?

There are better ways to gain your pointe range than sitting passively in a position that will no doubt be stretching ligaments as well as muscle tissue. Ligaments provide stability for our joints and if they are too loose, it makes it more difficult to use the joint properly. Hence we don’t really want to stretch ligaments and anything more than about 30 sec is moving into that range.

Foot stretchers also don’t provide any strengthening effect that ranging exercises will do.

However, if someone has particularly limited ankle range of movement they may help provide a continual movement into that position and provided it is backed up by strength exercises it may be ok. Best to seek advice from your physio prior to using one.