| Literature DB >> 25818717 |
Mark A Feger1, C Collin Herb1, John J Fraser2, Neal Glaviano1, Jay Hertel3.
Abstract
In competitive sports medicine, supervised rehabilitation is the standard of care; in the general population, unsupervised home exercise is more common. We systematically reviewed randomized, controlled trials comparing outcomes for supervised rehabilitation versus home exercise programs. Supervised rehabilitation programs resulted in (1) less pain and subjective instability, (2) greater gains in ankle strength and joint position sense, and (3) inconclusive results regarding prevention of recurrent ankle sprains. We recommend supervised rehabilitation over home exercise programs owing to the improved short-term patient-recorded evidence with a strength-of-recommendation taxonomy level of evidence of 2B.Entities:
Keywords: Ankle instability; Physical therapy; Therapeutic exercise
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25818717 DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2014.12.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Sports Med ISSN: 0278-5919 Impact factor: 2.182