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Reddit mentions of Therapy Best Buys Chango R4 Balance Board
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When using the 3" balance ball, remove the two small wooden balls to allow for full rotationMax weight: 500 lbsHelps strenthen core while improving balance, reflexes and coordinationIncludes the 3" and 4" yellow balance ballsBalance board has a 16" diameter
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Sweet! That sounds pretty good.
That banded squat may address exactly what you are talking about - having difficulty with your knees tracking over or outside of your feet. Once you get some more dorsiflexion going, those types of squats should help with your strength to hold knees over the foot or further out. Add in some increase mobility in the foot/ankles/legs and you should be looking pretty good.
I think dorsiflexion changes with with lots of things, pronating or not, and how much you can pronate, position of the foot and big toe, being straight ahead, or at 45 degree angle, or even 90 angle (as long as your knee never travels inside of the foot!). It does make sense that your travel would be better in full pronation, when your foot is arched, some of that length of the tissue is used up to travel up and down the arch. Flatten it out, that gives the tissue a bit more slack that your calf can use while your knee moves forward.
For me, I've tried to work on all of it, and get gains in all positions. Flat foot, arched foot, foot straight ahead, or to the sides. Wherever you are with all of those, they can each be improved - and I don't know that they need to be compared to each other.
I had lots of popping and clicks while working on this too. At first it was a worry about good vs bad pops, as my injury made it hard to tell - but once I got through that the pops got less and less as my strength and mobility improved. Some products that helped a lot for me in addition to the stretching were balance boards.
This one is cool, you can use just the 2 little balls only underneath it, and it doesn't rotate, you stand on it and control the motion forward and back ONLY while standing on 1 foot:
https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Best-Buys-Chango-Balance/dp/B0007YX8I0
Then there are the standard ones, you would stand on it with one foot and make the edge touch the ground all the way around while your knee stays straight.
https://www.amazon.com/Training-Exercise-rotation-Balance-Stability/dp/B06XD2R6QF
You can definitely over do these things while you are getting full mobility back, so go slow and don't sprain it! Don't force anything, it may be sore after, or you may get some tight muscles - but it shouldn't really ever hurt.