Bilateral balance impairments after lateral ankle trauma: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Balance failure in single limb stance due to ankle sprain injury: An analysis of center of pressure using the fractal dimension method

“…In addition, the decrease in successful trial COP path trajectory FD on the non-injured limb of ankle sprain participants when compared to that of control participants is in agreement with previous research that acute ankle sprain can cause bilateral deficits in postural control 15 . The calculated effect size for the one-way between groups ANOVA was large, suggesting that the success or failure of the task was dependent on the FD of the COP trajectory, and that injury causes a decrease in FD on the non-injured limb.…”

“…Successful trials of SLS in these studies were dependent on the capacity of the sensorimotor system to reweight afferent sensory information according to its availability, exploiting available redundancies from the vestibular and somatosensory systems in the absence of vision 26 . By constraining the sensorimotor system to a task of eyes-closed SLS, combined with the somatosensory damage of ankle sprain injury and coinciding centrally mediated changes in postural control mechanisms 15 , the available redundancies on which the sensorimotor system could rely on for maintenance of balance in the current investigation were eradicated. This coincided with a decrease in FD during eyes-closed SLS on the contralateral side to injury in participants when compared to a control group.…”

Consequences of Ankle Inversion Trauma: A Novel Recognition and Treatment Paradigm

“…Recent systematic reviews demonstrated that postural control is impaired on the involved limb (McKeon & Hertel, 2008a;Wikstrom, Naik, Lodha, & Cauraugh, 2009) and uninvolved limb following acute LAS. (Wikstrom, Naik, Lodha, & Cauraugh, 2010c) These findings are supported by prospective data indicating that balance deficits on the uninjured limb resolve in about 7-days while balance deficits on the involved limb take about 21-28 days to fully resolve. (Evans et al, 2004) Given the above mentioned impairments, as well as the obvious pain and dysfunction associated with LAS, it is not surprising that both the temporal and spatial parameters of gait are also impaired.…”

Kinematics and kinetics of an accidental lateral ankle sprain

“…The injured athlete may suffer long-term sequelae such as an unstable joint and reduced proprioception (Wikstrom et al, 2010), increasing the risk of subsequent ankle injuries. Various preventive measures have been shown to be effective in reducing the incidence of ankle sprains (McKeon and Mattacola, 2008), but these may be refined with an improved understanding of the injury mechanism .…”