Assessment of functional treatment versus plaster of Paris in the treatment of grade 1 and 2 lateral ankle sprains

Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Pretreatment characteristics, visual analog scale scores, and Karlsson scores of the patients

Variable	TG	POP	p value
Age (years)	28.77 ± 6.72	29.83 ± 6.30	0.034*
Ankle
Right	30	21	<0.001*
Left	30	39	<0.001*
Sex
Male	25	18	<0.001*
Female	35	42	<0.001*
VAS at presentation	8.40 ± 0.92	8.27 ± 0.94	0.434
Karlsson score at presentation	21.17 ± 6.31	23.67 ± 5.24	0.571