SynthesisScandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports2022
Time-loss and recurrence of lateral ligament ankle sprains in male elite football: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Time-loss and recurrence of lateral ligament ankle sprains in male elite football: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2022Pooled it
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- Ultrafast Return to Sport in International Feminine Football Following Arthroscopic Anatomic Lateral Ankle Ligament Reconstruction Using Gracilis Autograft: A Case Report.Case reports in orthopedics · 2026Article
- The effect of gluteal Kinesio-Taping on ankle function, dynamic balance, and electromyographic activity of gluteal muscles in male soccer players with chronic ankle instability: a randomized clinical trial.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Systematic video analysis of ankle sprain injuries in elite male football (soccer): Injury mechanisms, situational patterns, biomechanics and neurocognitive errors study: A study on 140 consecutive players.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2025Article
- Time-loss and recurrence rate of lateral ankle sprains in male professional football players depending on the severity grade: do we trivialise LAS?BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2025Article
- [Treatment of acute ankle distortion in footballers : Are we doing it particularly right or particularly wrong?]Orthopadie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Impact of lateral ankle sprains on physical function, range of motion, isometric strength and balance in professional soccer players.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- A Rehabilitation Algorithm After Lateral Ankle Sprains in Professional Football (Soccer): An Approach Based on Clinical Practice Guidelines.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2024Article
- Soccer's AI transformation: deep learning's analysis of soccer's pandemic research evolution.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
A literature search was conducted to systematically review and meta-analyze time-loss and recurrence rate of lateral ankle sprains (LAS) in male professional football players. Six electronic databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, PEDRO, CINAHL, and Cochrane) were searched independently, separately both for time-loss and recurrence from inception until April 30, 2021. In addition, reference lists were screened manually to find additional literature. Cohort studies, case reports, case-control studies and RCT in English language of male professional football players (aged more than 16 years) for which data on time-loss or recurrence rates of LAS were available were included. A total of 13 (recurrence) and 12 (time-loss) studies met the inclusion criteria. The total sample size of the recurrence studies was 36,201 participants (44,404 overall initial injuries; 7944 initial ankle sprain [AS] injuries, 1193 recurrent AS injuries). 16,442 professional football players (4893 initial AS injuries; 748 recurrent AS injuries) were meta-analyzed. A recurrence rate of 17.11% (95% CI: 13.31-20.92%; df = 12; Q = 19.53; I
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