Our Story.

Up to 70% of ankle injuries never fully recover.

After injury, pain might fade, but strength, control, and confidence often remain diminished. Ankles are designed for balance, force absorption, and power with every step. When they are injured, weakness lingers — limiting performance and increasing the risk of re-injury or complications, like arthritis, down the road.

This gap — between injury and a return to full strength — is what led to the creation of the AKLS™ ankle system.

The idea for AKLS came from a simple realization: effective ankle strengthening tools were largely confined to clinical environments. They required specialized equipment, professional supervision, and repeated visits. Outside of those settings, people were left improvising with resistance bands or other makeshift setups, and failed to effectively target the ankle in all directions through full ranges of motion.

Matt Daher, the inventor of AKLS, spent over two decades working in injury rehabilitation and sport performance across leading healthcare and sports environments in North America. From everyday patients to elite athletes — including World Cup players and Olympic champions — he saw the same pattern repeat: strong progress in clinical environments, followed by lack of effective structure once patients left the clinic.

Motivated by this problem, Matt set out to create a system that could bring clinic-level ankle strengthening into the home. Working alongside other healthcare professionals, engineers, and industrial designers, he developed the AKLS™ ankle system — a purpose-built solution designed to target every key ankle movement, hands-free, through full ranges of motion, without endless physical therapy visits or complicated setups.

AKLS was created to support the part of recovery that too often gets overlooked: the return to full ankle strength following injury. It exists to help people continue the work that starts in the clinic, on their own terms, with a system designed specifically for the ankle — not adapted from something else.

Built for clinical standards. Available to everyone.

This is the story behind AKLS.