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Participants will perform calf muscle stretching exercises. The participant will be asked to keep the knee of the stretched leg straight with the heel flat on the ground, slightly bend the front knee, and push the hips toward a wall. The exercise will be done in 2 sets of 3 repetitions, every repetition for 30 seconds and a ten-second rest, with a one-minute rest between sets

The Mulligan mobilization techniques involve talar glide and fibular glide. Talar glide involves manually stabilizing the patient's talus and leg with anteroposterior direction pressure, while fibular glide involves a pain-free sustained anterior to posterior, slightly superior, and lateral glide of the distal fibula. The patient is then asked to plantar-flex, invert the foot, and perform overpressure. The technique is performed during ankle dorsiflexion in a closed kinetic chain.

The length of tape is calculated using a formula: B = A + (XA ∗ 0.35), where "A" is the tape's length, "X" is the pretension, "0.35" is the 35% tension, and "B" is the muscle's length from origin to insertion. In this study, 50% pretension was used, and "A" was added to the tails. Fibular taping is applied immediately after the MWM to improve positional alignment, wrapping around the distal tibia and applying Mueller tape in the same direction. Talar taping involves wrapping Mueller tape from the talus downward and posterior to the calcaneus while holding the ankle in slight dorsiflexion.

The formula for cutting tape length is B = A + (XA ∗ 0.35), where "A" represents the tape's length, "X" is the pretension, "0.35" is the 35% tension, and "B" is the muscle's length from origin to insertion. In this study, 50% pretension was used, and "A" was added to the tails' length. The tape application involves two steps: from below the medial calcaneus to the medial aspect of the lower leg, and from below the lateral malleolus to the lateral aspect.