TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Current practice for safe return-to-play after lateral ankle sprain: a survey among French-speaking physicians
JO  - Foot and ankle surgery
A1  - Aguilaniu, Aude
A1  - Croisier, Jean-Louis
A1  - Schwartz, Cedric
A1  - Dardenne, Nadia
A1  - D'Hooghe, Pieter
A1  - Martens, Géraldine
A1  - Collin, Romain
A1  - Kaux, Jean-François
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1268-7731
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fas.2021.03.023
ID  - ref1
ER  -