Ankle Fracture Treatment: Enhancing Rehabilitation – the AFTER study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Ankle fracture; Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning; Fractures of other parts of lower leg

• Registration Number: ISRCTN16612336
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Oxford

Brief Summary

2019 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31678945/ protocol (added 27/10/2020) 2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36424115/ Primary outcomes (added 25/11/2022) 2023 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37487681/ Results of embedded qualitative substudy (added 25/07/2023)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-07-31
• Study Completion: 2020-04-24
• Last Update Posted: 7 August 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 61

Inclusion Criteria

1. Adults aged 50 years or over with an ankle fracture
2. Undergoing surgical fixation, or conservative management involving ankle immobilisation for at least 4 weeks

Exclusion Criteria

Patients who:
1. Are unable to understand spoken and written English
2. Do not have capacity to consent to study participation
3. Who were not ambulatory prior to the injury
4. Who are considered inappropriate for referral to physiotherapy (in the opinion of the clinician)
5. Who are unable to attend outpatient physiotherapy at a participating centre
6. With serious concomitant disease (such as terminal illness)
7. With avulsion fractures or other fractures not requiring surgery or immobilisation for definitive management
8. With bilateral lower limb fractures

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified