While most patients may expect a return to daily activities after ankle fracture repair, presented results showed patients with sedentary preinjury levels of activity may have better odds of returning to normal activity after surgery.
Results also showed fear of reinjury may significantly impact return to activity after ankle fracture repair.
“It’s easier to return to being a couch potato who walks occasionally than it is to return to high-intensity athletics involving running, jumping, cutting and pivoting,” Steven M. Hadley Jr., BA, a second-year medical student at Northwestern