Individuals with a history of multiple ankle sprains (IMAS) present rigid movement patterns contributing to postural instability. Evidence indicates that IMAS upregulate reliance on visual feedback as a compensatory mechanism for postural stability. Increased visual reliance may require IMAS to fixate gaze (visual fixation) on fewer objects. However, how vision is utilized with IMAS while performing static and dynamic tasks compared to healthy controls is unknown. PURPOSE: To validate differences in visual reliance and examine visual fixation while controlling posture in injured-limb in individuals with and without MAS. We hypothesized that IMAS will upregulate visual reliance and increase visual fixation while maintaining posture in injured-limb compared to healthy controls. METHODS: Ten physically active individuals with and without MAS completed the Sensory Organization Test (SOT) to compute sensory ratios that measure reliance on primary sensory systems (somatosensory, visual, vestibular) during postural control. The SOT comprises six conditions to challenge somatosensory, visual, and vestibular feedback in a combination of the sway-referenced support surface and visual surroundings with and without vision. Healthy controls were matched to IMAS and assigned an injured-limb. Visual fixation was measured with gaze fixation count using EyeNal software. One-way repeated measures ANOVA (alpha = .05) and Cohen’s d effect size (ES) analyzed group comparisons. RESULTS: IMAS significantly upregulated vestibular reliance compared to healthy controls (IMAS = .78 ± .02, Healthy = .68 ± .09, ES = 1.44, P = .037), and a large ES was found on visual reliance (IMAS = .96 ± .02, Healthy = .93 ± .05, ES = .79) while controlling posture in injured-limb. No significant group differences were found for visual fixation (P > .05). However, a large ES was found for visual fixation for the SOT condition 1 where all three sensory feedback was intact (IMAS = 14 ± 7.80, Healthy = 21 ± 9.73, ES = .79). CONCLUSIONS: The preliminary results partially confirmed our hypothesis. IMAS upregulated vestibular reliance to aid visual feedback to control posture. Increased visual fixation in IMAS may be indicative of limiting gaze boundaries to obtain accurate visual feedback, but a larger sample size is necessary to confirm our hypothesis.