It is interesting that the use of ankle supports appeared to lead to an increase in the risk of ankle sprain. However, this finding should be interpreted with caution. We defined ankle support as any tape or brace used by the athlete. We suspect that a number of athletes used braces that they had purchased on their own that provided limited support. In addition, some athletes relied on coaches and teammates to tape them when they competed away from their own school. We have no doubt that if equivalent, wellconstructed braces were used on all athletes and taping was done only by an ATC, we would not have found that the risk of ankle sprains was higher in subjects who used ankle supports.