Posterior ankle soft tissue echo intensity is associated with anterior ankle pain and dorsiflexion limitation following ankle fracture surgery
Hayato Miyasaka, Bungo Ebihara, Makoto Takahashi, Takashi Fukaya, Koichi Iwai, Shigeki Kubota, Hirotaka Mutsuzaki · 2026
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Hayato Miyasaka and co-authors probe why ankles stay stiff and sore at the front after fracture surgery in 2026. Blame usually falls on front-side impingement. The team instead scanned the back of the ankle in 40 fixed-fracture patients. They measured brightness of the big-toe flexor muscle and Kager's fat pad on ultrasound.
Brighter tissue in both back structures tracked independently with stronger pain during forced upward bending, and brighter muscle also predicted less upward range. Patients failing a stretch test for that muscle showed the brightest tissue, the most pain, and the tightest motion. Rear tissue change, the authors suggest, deserves a place in post-fracture ankle assessment.
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| CREATOR | Hayato Miyasaka, Bungo Ebihara, Makoto Takahashi, Takashi Fukaya, Koichi Iwai, Shigeki Kubota, Hirotaka Mutsuzaki |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38161 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |