ABSTRACT Introduction: Ankle sprains are frequent in sports activities and can lead to joint instability with clinical performance consequences. Sudden ankle inversion platforms have been used study the mechanism of sprain. Objectives: To test a static platform that simulates movement sprain (sudden inversion) soccer players. Methods: A was developed perform sudden an dissociated three axes: in...

Ankle sprains are common during sporting activities and can have serious consequences. Understanding of injury mechanisms is essential to prevent injuries, but only two previous studies have provided detailed descriptions of the kinematics of lateral ankle sprains and measures of kinetics are missing. In the present study a female handball player accidentally sprained her ankle during sidestep ...

The objective of the study was to determine if prophylactic ankle bracing worn by females during landings produces abnormal lower extremity mechanics. Angular kinematic and ground reaction force (GRF) data were obtained for 16 athletically experienced females who performed brace and no-brace drop landings. The brace condition displayed reduced in/external rotation an...

Aim: To determine the incidence of syndesmotic injuries in ankle fractures within the division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pretoria. Methods: A total of 94 serial patients with ankle fractures were assessed for syndesmotic injury by means of ankle mortise stress views and manual traction with a bone hook. Each fracture was classified according to both the Weber and Lauge Hansen classi...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is the biomechanical investigation rotation, stress and deformation caused in talus, under a specific load, by various fixation methods ankle which has supination external rotation (SER) injury deltoid rupture.
 Method: Ankle healthy individual was analyzed with help package program based on finite elements method (FEM). Then, SER model created. Lateral m...

The medial deltoid ligament is the primary stabilizing structure in the ankle joint following lateral malleolar fracture. However, medial deltoid ligament ruptures are difficult to diagnose using current imaging modalities. We hypothesized that ultrasonography can be used to accurately allow early clinical assessment of ankle fracture stability, thereby negating the need to perform plain film s...

PURPOSE To identify the characteristics of static standing balance and its postural control mechanisms during quiet side-by-side standing and the changes in these measures whilst wearing hinged ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (CP). MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-one children with bilateral spastic CP (6.10 +/- 1.09 year-old) and 22 typically developi...

BACKGROUND Ankle ligamentous sprain is common in sports. The most direct way to study the mechanism quantitatively is to study real injury cases; however, it is unethical and impractical to produce an injury in the laboratory. A recently developed, model-based image-matching motion analysis technique allows quantitative analysis of real injury incidents captured in televised events and gives im...

OBJECTIVES To determine the value of clinical tests for accurate diagnosis of ankle syndesmosis injury. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES An electronic database search was conducted (to 6 August 2012) of databases such as: MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PubMed and Cochrane Databases. References from identified articles were examined and seven authors of eligible studies were contacted for ad...