@article{ref1,
title="Current practice for safe return-to-play after lateral ankle sprain: a survey among French-speaking physicians",
journal="Foot and ankle surgery",
year="2021",
author="Aguilaniu, Aude and Croisier, Jean-Louis and Schwartz, Cedric and Dardenne, Nadia and D'Hooghe, Pieter and Martens, Géraldine and Collin, Romain and Kaux, Jean-François",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Recommendations are available for assessment criteria for safe return-to-play (RTP) after a lateral ankle sprain. However, their current use among physicians is unknown. <br><br>METHODS: French-speaking physicians in Belgium, France and Switzerland were asked to complete an online survey and report their clinical assessment of selected RTP criteria. <br><br>RESULTS: The respondent sample (n=109) included physicians with and without Sports Medicine education, varied level of experience and proportion of athletes in their practice population. Pain was the most selected criterion for safe RTP (90% of physicians), followed by ability to engage in functional tasks (82%), functional instability (73%), range of motion (61%), proprioception (47%), mechanical instability (39%), strength (38%) and swelling (31%). A low proportion of physicians use quantitative measures to assess these criteria (between 4% and 53%). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: A large proportion of physicians consider the recommended criteria for RTP decisions. However, physicians do not frequently use quantitative measures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1268-7731",
doi="10.1016/j.fas.2021.03.023",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fas.2021.03.023"
}