Current nursing interventions for adults with repetitive ankle sprains

Abstract

Ankle sprain is a common ankle soft tissue injury, and repeated ankle sprains can cause chronic pain and become a CAI patient, and even potential complications such as traumatic osteoarthritis may occur, which affects the quality of life of the patient and aggravates the follow-up care of the patient cost. After con-servative treatment fails, surgical treatment is needed. Improving current nursing interventions for patients with recurrent ankle sprains can help prevent patients from getting worse. Therefore, the main research goal of this study is to find current effective nursing interventions for adults with repeated ankle sprains. Literature are searched based on different keywords from the literature library ScienceDirect, Janet, CI-NAHL (Ebsco), PubMed through the method of literature review, and then the literature is screened by cri-teria such as repetition rate and relevance. A total of 125 documents were identified, and 42 of them were selected as the result analysis based on the year limit and the degree of relevance. After preliminary analy-sis and sorting, it can be found that the nursing intervention measures for repeated ankle sprains can be divided into prevention, conservative intervention, surgical nursing intervention and pain management. Ac-cording to the detailed analysis of different steps, the conclusions can be gained: 1), Due to the repeated ankle sprains can lead to traumatic osteoarthritis, balance training and additional support as well protec-tion during exercise can effectively prevent sprains again. 2), conservative intervention to apply ice on the ankle for 20 minutes is proved to be the best time. 3), If conservative treatment fails for 3 to 6 months, sur-gical treatment is required. And surgical intervention should pay attention to the potential complications of the ankle joint. 4) Nurses need to use related analgesics to provide patients with good pain management. 5), Nurses need to follow up the basic condition of the patient in follow-up care, and understand the health education of the patient and his family