A Rehabilitation Algorithm After Lateral Ankle Sprains in Professional Football (Soccer): An Approach Based on Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Zacharias Flore, Karen Hambly, Kyra De Coninck, Götz Welsch
PMID 38966831WHAT IT FOUND
No patients or outcomes are reported.
This commentary proposes a criteria-based rehabilitation algorithm for professional footballers after lateral ankle sprain, but it does not show that the algorithm works.
What this paper is
This is a clinical commentary proposing a criteria-based rehabilitation algorithm for professional footballers after lateral ankle sprain. It describes progression levels, clinical tests, performance tests and Ankle Function Score thresholds, but it reports no patients, no outcomes and no effectiveness data, so there is nothing here to change your practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the proposed algorithm as evidence that it reduces recurrent ankle sprains. The paper says the extent to which it can reduce recurrence remains to be evaluated in future studies.