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Current practice for safe return-to-play after lateral ankle sprain: A survey among French-speaking physicians
Aude Aguilaniu1, Jean-Louis Croisier2, Cédric Schwartz2
1University of Liège, Sports Sciences Department, Human Motion Analysis Lab, Liège, Belgium.
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.
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.
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%).
Conclusions:
A large proportion of physicians consider the recommended criteria for RTP decisions. However, physicians do not frequently use quantitative measures.
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