Return to sports after ankle fractures: a systematic review.

Introduction: This review aims to provide information on the time athletes will take to resume sports activity following ankle fractures.

Sources Of Data: We systematically searched Medline (PubMED), EMBASE, CINHAL, Cochrane, Sports Discus and Google scholar databases using the combined keywords 'ankle fractures', 'ankle injuries', 'athletes', 'sports', 'return to sport', 'recovery', 'operative fixation', 'pinning', 'return to activity' to identify articles published in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian.

Areas Of Agreement: Seven retrospective studies fulfilled our inclusion criteria.