The value of a nano-bamboo charcoal ankle guard combined with ankle-joint rehabilitation treatment on the rehabilitation effect of ankle-joint motor injury

Abstract

Ankle-joint sports injuries with poor rehabilitation results can seriously affect a patient’s quality of life. Nanobamboo charcoal has a strong adsorbability and disinfection effect. It has been used in ankle guards, but the effect of nanometer-sized bamboo charcoal has not been reported thus far. In this study, 98 patients with an ankle-joint motor injury were divided into a Regular Group and Joint Group (49 cases, each) using the random number table method. The Regular Group received the conventional treatment, and the Joint Group received nano-bamboo charcoal ankle guard combined with ankle-joint rehabilitation treatment. The analysis showed that ankle function, balance function, dorsiflexion range of motion, American Orthopedic Foot Ankle Society score, and total effective rate (91.84% vs. 73.47%) in the Joint Group were all higher than those in the Regular Group, while the Visual Analog Scale and Clinical Symptom Score scores were all lower than those of the conventional group (P < 0.05). This indicates that a nano-bamboo charcoal ankle guard combined with ankle-joint rehabilitation treatment can effectively reduce pain and improve ankle-joint balance, movement, dorsiflexion range of motion, and other functioning parameters of the patients, with a significant curative effect and high clinical application value.

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“…Ankle injury comprises approximately 10% of all sports injuries. A nano-TiO2 modified BC was used to make ankle guard material (Lu et al 2021). The hydroxyl ions were released by exposing TiO2 to light, which resulted in the denaturation of their protein components.…”