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Conservative Management for Stable High Ankle Injuries in Professional Football Players.
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- Rotating-pulling-poking manipulation in gait analysis for lateral ankle sprain treatment.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2025Trial
- The Ankle-GO™ score predicts return to sport after surgically treated unstable syndesmotic injuries.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2026Article
- A Review of Syndesmosis Injuries and Preferred Treatment in Football Players.Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine · 2025Review
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- Cryo plus Ultrasound Therapy, a Novel Rehabilitative Approach for Football Players with Acute Lateral Ankle Injury Sprain: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Musculoskeletal Injury in American Football: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Most Cited Articles.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
contextHigh ankle "syndesmosis" injuries are common in American football players relative to the general population. At the professional level, syndesmotic sprains represent a challenging and unique injury lacking a standardized rehabilitation protocol during conservative management. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: PubMed, Biosis Preview, SPORTDiscus, PEDro, and EMBASE databases were searched using the terms syndesmotic injuries, American football, conservative management, and rehabilitation. STUDY
designClinical review. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level 3.
resultsWhen compared with lateral ankle sprains, syndesmosis injuries result in significantly prolonged recovery times and games lost. For stable syndesmotic injuries, conservative management features a brief period of immobilization and protected weightbearing followed by progressive strengthening exercises and running, and athletes can expect to return to competition in 2 to 6 weeks. Further research investigating the efficacy of dry needling and blood flow restriction therapy is necessary to evaluate the benefit of these techniques in the rehabilitation process.
conclusionSuccessful conservative management of stable syndesmotic injuries in professional American football athletes requires a thorough understanding of the anatomy, injury mechanisms, diagnosis, and rehabilitation strategies utilized in elite athletes.
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