Intervención de la terapia manual en la estabilidad del tobillo en pacientes con esguince de tobillo de grado 2

Abstract

The research project was developed in patients treated in the Physiotherapy area of the Laica Eloy Alfaro University of "Manabí" between the ages of 18 and 30 who present Grade 2 Ankle Sprain, to whom manual therapy was applied. , using a data collection instrument. A diagnosis of their condition was first applied to the patients and then the intervention was applied to the affected area. Manual therapy sessions were held for weeks, where the patients managed to recover ankle stability, strength, as well as reduce pain in a minimum of three weeks and a maximum of seven weeks. In the intervention sessions, the affected foot measuring goniometry in the ankle in terms of dorsiflexion, flexion, eversion and plantar inversion, where the anterior fibular-talar ligament was evaluated, the Daniels Test was also used to assess muscle strength and the EVA Test to assess the pain, the data was recorded in an observation sheet, finally the information obtained was tabulated through statistical tables in SPSS, where the values before and after the intervention were compared, evidencing the benefits obtained by applying manual therapy in the pain. Grade two ankle sprain.