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Cast versus functional brace in the rehabilitation of patients treated for an ankle fracture: protocol for the UK study of ankle injury rehabilitation (AIR) multicentre randomised trial

INTRODUCTION: Each year in the UK over 120 000 people fracture their ankle. It is not known what the best rehabilitation strategy is for these people. Traditionally standard care has involved immobilisation in a plaster cast but an alternative is a functional brace, which can be removed to allow ear...

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Autores principales: Kearney, Rebecca Samantha, McKeown, Rebecca, Stevens, Siobhan, Parsons, Nicholas, Parsons, Helen, Wells, Philip, Brown, Jaclyn, Underwood, Martin, Redmond, Anthony, Mason, James, Costa, Matthew L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6303686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30567826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027242