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Name | A Comparative study to determine the effectiveness of ACU treatment (Analgesic, conservative and ultrasound) and analgesic alone treatment in reducing pain and swelling for selected lateral ligament injured athletes in ankle attending clinics in Madurai & Pune,India. |
Description | Original article:- Physiotherapy Jeganathan. A.1*, Suresh Kumar. T.2 ,Leo Rathinaraj. A.S3 & Nanthini Subbiah4. 1Associate Professor, MAEER’s Physiotherapy College, Talegaon, Pune, Maharashtra, India. 2Assistant Professor, 3Professor Maharashtra Institute of Physiotherapy, Latur, Maharashtra, India. 4Reader, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India.
Abstract:- Objective:- To compare the effectiveness of ACU treatments with analgesic alone in lateral ligament injured in ankle. Introduction:- The ankle joint is fairly unstable and largely depends on ligaments for its stability. Therefore it is highly susceptible for sprain. The sprains are a tearing of ligaments that connect bones and involve outer ligaments that support the ankle joint. The ankle sprains are two types’ pronation or eversion type and supination or inversion type. The most common mechanism of ankle sprain is inward twisting of the ankle. Generally it occurs in activities like running and jumping. In football and basketball the inversion sprain occurs when the player lands on other player’s foot. Supination type is a common capsule-ligamentous injury reported to be present in about 85% of all the ankle sprains. The injury occurs as a result of sudden adduction-inversion force on the ankle. The anterior and lateral ligaments are involved in these types of sprain. Materials & Methodology:- the sample of 30 subjects with lateral ligament injury who divided into two groups with 15 in each group. The experimental group exclusively treated with ACU treatment. The control group patients treated with analgesic only .The Materials used were, Table, inch tape and a chair ,Pain scale and swelling scale. Procedure: 30 subjects were selected with random sampling method and subjects were screened with inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria. The subjects are divided into two groups. Group A given with ACU treatment and group B given with analgesic only. The patients are assessed with pain scale and swelling scale pre and post study. Result & Conclusion:- In this study In ACU treatment, pre treatment pain score was 60 % in 0,40% in 1.after treatment 60% with the score 5, 33.3% with the score of 4, and 6.6% with the score 2. In 1st and 2nd degree ankle lateral ligament injury, treatment with analgesic, conservative and ultrasound (ACU) is found to be more effective in reducing pain and swelling.
Key words:- Ankle sprain, Pain, Swelling, Analgesics, Ultrasound, Lateral ligament injury.
Copyright © 2013 Jeganathan. A et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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