Functional Outcome Following Operative Treatment of Ankle Fractures

Operative Outcome of Ankle Fractures : Audit from Regional Referral Hospital, Oman

“…The age range of patients in our study was from 15-60 years(mean 28.4 years ) which is comparable to other studies (3,5).Motor vehicle accidents was the major cause of ankle fractures in our study followed by twisting injury and fall, slips which is similar to other studies [4,5,7,9].…”

Characteristics and Effectiveness of Postoperative Rehabilitation Strategies in Ankle Fractures: A Systematic Review

“…Of all studies, 40 23–61 described their postoperative rehabilitation strategy but did not evaluate effectiveness and 15 20–22,62–73 focused on evaluating the effectiveness of the postoperative rehabilitation strategy. This section reports only those 40 studies that described their postoperative rehabilitation strategy, focusing on weight-bearing, immobilization, and other therapy administered.…”

“…One study did not specify any time frames, instead allowed non–weight-bearing walking with crutches only when the patient was pain free. 48 This study was included in the late weight-bearing group (see Table , Supplemental Digital Content 4 , http://links.lww.com/JOT/B767).…”

“…Fourteen of 40 studies (35%) did not detail their postoperative rehabilitation therapy, other than a mention. 27,30,31,33,34,38,40,41,44,49,50,53,54,74 All of the remaining studies only provided limited details or a brief explanation of the number of sessions and type of exercises, which primarily targeted range of motion, 24,39,42,43,[46][47][48]51,56,[59][60][61] strength, 47 proprioception, 46,47 and the number or timing of sessions. 23,25,28,29,45,46,56,57,59,60 Other studies gave more details of their programs involving timing of exercises 55 and range of motion.…”

High Energy Injury Ankle Fracture-Dislocation without Neurovascular Involvement

“…The fact that clinical results for closed injuries are better than open ones is probably due to more serious soft tissue trauma. Early anatomic reduction and fracture fixation would improve outcome in an operated ankle fracture dislocation (D'Almeida et al, 2015).…”