Does early mobilisation after ankle fracture surgery enhance recovery?
- Conditions
- Topic: Musculoskeletal, SurgerySubtopic: Musculoskeletal (all Subtopics), SurgeryDisease: Musculoskeletal, SurgerySurgery
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN15497399
- Lead Sponsor
- Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Brief Summary
2024 Other publications in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38216176/ Cost-effectiveness analysis and qualitative findings (added 15/01/2024)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 262
1. Received surgery for fixation of unstable ankle fracture
2. Provision of informed consent to participate
1. Under 16 years old (skeletally immature)
2. Poor skin condition at operation site
3. Serious concomitant disease (e.g. stroke, osteoporosis, arthritis)
4. Diabetic neuropathy/other sensory neuropathy (lack of sensation)
5. Non-ambulatory prior to injury
6. Active leg ulceration
7. Patients who are unable to understand the study information or unable to complete the outcome questionnaires
8. Surgeon concerned about quality of fixation/integrity of wound
9. Fracture requiring further stabilisation in/around the ankle (e.g. syndesmosis).
10. Open ankle fracture (bone broken through skin)
11. Participant is a participant in other concurrent interventional research which may over-burden the participant or confound data collection
12. Concomitant injuries which will have a confounding effect on rehabilitation in the opinion of the investigator
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Olerud and Molander Ankle Score; Timepoint(s): Five weeks post randomisation
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Ankle functional data (range of movement, weight-bearing)<br> 2. Standardised measure of general quality of life (EQ-5D-5L)<br> 3. Healing status<br> 4. Complications<br> 5. Return to Usual Activities<br>