Impact of Physiotherapy Intervention for Children With Ankle Sprains

McGill University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Therapy

Treatments: Other: Physiotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01405274

09-287-PED

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will investigate whether adding a physiotherapy intervention to standard Emergency Department care will lead to improved recovery following an ankle sprain in the pediatric and adolescent population as well as to a decrease recurrence of injuries during the year following the initial ankle sprain. Children will be allocated to standard care or to the added intervention group. The study hypothesis is that recovery will be better while recurrence of injury will be less in those receiving the added physiotherapy intervention.

Enrollment: 170 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 7 to 18
• confirmed diagnosis of ankle sprain
• Ability to Speak French or English

Exclusion criteria

• immobilization at the time of ED discharge

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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170 participants in 2 patient groups

Physiotherapy intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Physiotherapy

standard care

No Intervention group