Hi all,
For a university project, i am looking at lateral ankle sprain and the rehabilitation involved in it.
Currently, i am in the process of looking for the most up-to-date literature that talks the anatomy, pathology, injury mechanism, treatment and the rehabilitation that is involved in getting a patient back to daily living after a 6-week period.
If anyone has any recommendations for journals that talk about the aspects that i specifed above, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Nardi Sola
Perhaps try these for starters. They have all been published within the last 5 years;
Gribble PA, Bleakley CM, Caulfield BM, Docherty CL, Fourchet F, Fong DT, Hertel J, Hiller CE, Kaminski TW, McKeon PO, Refshauge KM. 2016 consensus statement of the International Ankle Consortium: prevalence, impact and long-term consequences of lateral ankle sprains. Br J Sports Med. 2016 Jun 3:bjsports-2016.
van den Bekerom MP, Kerkhoffs GM, McCollum GA, Calder JD, van Dijk CN. Management of acute lateral ankle ligament injury in the athlete. Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy. 2013 Jun 1;21(6):1390-5.
Loudon JK, Reiman MP, Sylvain J. The efficacy of manual joint mobilisation/manipulation in treatment of lateral ankle sprains: a systematic review. Br J Sports Med. 2014 Mar 1;48(5):365-70.
Wikstrom EA, Hubbard-Turner T, McKeon PO. Understanding and treating lateral ankle sprains and their consequences. Sports medicine. 2013 Jun 1;43(6):385-93.
You will be able to track down the full-text of most of these papers if you just drop the citation into Google Scholar.
Good luck!
Regards,
Matt
I find it bizarre having (almost) completed three programmes in higher education that everyone wants you to do research, though not very many teach you how to do it. This is a mini rant on the FE/ HE system, not you the student by the way.
The way you find research on a subject is by doing a PICOS search. This allows you to put in very basic terms, then narrow it down with further inclusion criteria. It goes as follows:
P - population
I - intervention
C - comparison
O - outcome
S - study type
So for your question you would do something along the lines of:
P
1. Lateral ankle sprain/ ankle injury/ ankle ligament injury/ anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) ligament injury etc
2. Sport specific
3. Gender
4. Age group
I
1. Physiotherapy/ physical therapy/ injury rehabilitation
C
N/A unless you want to know if intervention 'x' is more beneficial than intervention 'y'
O
Return to play,
Performance sub-category, i.e. proprioception, stability, change of direction, strength, range of motion etc..
S - what sort of study are you looking at... observational, randomised control trials, meta-analyses etc.
I appreciate this is a long winded answer to what you want, but you would get a LOT more out of it, like how to research, which research is credible, as well as the answer to your question. There's a lot more to it than, "what is out there."
Good luck and be sure to keep researching and sharing too. :)
Chris
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