Uhhh ... mostly just intuition ... a few things he said made me think hips ...
1. That his knees used to buckle in during squats and he has had to work at keeping them out. (ie hip weakness ... most likely glute medius)
2. That the knee goes outward when the ankle rolls ... if it were solely an ankle problem, the knee might buckle but wouldn't necessarily travel laterally.
Try doing a step up and letting the lead ankle invert ... it almost has to come from the hip.
It has been my clinical experience (12+ years) that in the absense of direct trauma, more movement dysfunction comes from the hip than just about anywhere else (with the exception of the scapula). Many low back issues can also be traced to the hips.
That's not to say that there might not be some ankle stuff going on too, but if the ankle gets "fixed" without "fixing" the hip, then the ankle stuff will recur.
Does that make any sense? (I'm a little scattered today!)
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