Treatment of the Sydesmosis Sprain

Abstract

Ankle sprains are very common injuries in sports. In this study, we investigated 1824 cases of ankle sprains. About half of the cases visited other clinics or hospitals before visiting ours. The reasons were persistent ankle symptoms, including pain, gait disturbance and continuous swelling etc.. Forty cases were uncommon injuries of the syndesmosis sprains. Twenty-six cases were recent and the remaining fourteen cases were old. All the old cases were diagnosed as the lateral ligment injury. The recent cases were divided into three groups. They were treated and evaluated by our criteria.
Treatment included taping, casting and brace after casting. The results were excellent or good. Old cases could not be classified into the stage but treated identically to the recent cases. The results were good. We concluded that syndesmosis sprain require a longer recovery period than other types, but, exact treatment shows good results.