About the trial
Ankle fracture is one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries sustained in the UK.
Background
Every day in the UK around 170 people break an ankle.
They tell us that they have pain and physical limitations for several weeks, or sometimes months, after the injury. It can also mean that they have to take a long time off work. We know some people can have pain in their ankle as well as some functional limitations for as long as three years or even longer.
In most hospitals, simple ankle breaks are treated with a plaster cast or a walking boot. If the break is more complicated with the broken bones out of place, or if they wouldn’t stay in line when walking in a boot or plaster, an operation is performed to fix the bones in place with screws and a plate.
The study team
Xavier Griffin
Chief Investigator Consultant Trauma Surgeon
Xavier is the Chief Investigator for NIHR randomised clinical trials and has also received commercially funded grants. His research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal trauma interventions.
Dr Susan Wagland
Trial Manager
As Clinical Trials Manager in Oxford Trauma Group, Susan is responsible for day-to-day management of clinical trials. Susan works with a clinical trials administrator to deliver the FAME study.
Warren Sheehan
Research Physiotherapist
Warren is the trial trainer, visiting hospitals to instruct them in trial procedures and close contact casting techniques.
Study recruitment sites
South England
- Homerton University Hospital
- Horton General Hospital
- James Paget Hospital
- John Radcliffe Hospital
- Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate
- Royal Free Hospitals
- Southmead Hospital, Bristol
- St Helier Hospital, Sutton
- St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight
- The Royal London Hospital
- Yeovil District Hospital
Midlands
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
- University Hospitals of Derby and Burton
North England
- James Cook University Hospital
- Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle
- Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust
- Sunderland Royal Hospital
- University Hospital of North Tees
Scotland
- Forth Valley
- Victoria Hospital, Fife
Wales
- Ysbyty Gwynedd
