From: Life impact of ankle fractures: Qualitative analysis of patient and clinician experiences
Physical | Psychological | Daily living | Social | Occupational and Domestic | Financial | Aesthetic | Medication Taking |
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Physical impacts experienced | Psychological impacts experienced | Impacts on daily living activities | Social impacts experienced | Impacts on occupational or domestic tasks | Financial impacts experienced | Aesthetic impacts experienced | Experiences associated with medications |
“Very sore. Pain was the number one problem.”p1 | “I was scared I was going to break it again…”p6 | “No leisure. No Sports. Nothing.”p12 | “Personal life is restricted with relationships…”p9 | “It causes me pain… but it doesn’t stop me from working, but I am in more pain.”p6 | “I was out of work so it affected money.”p11 | “I haven’t been able to wear any of my high heel shoes.”p8 | “It causes me pain- have to take medication…”p12 |
“Mainly if I stand on it too much, the ankle gets quite irritated and very swollen.”p2 | “I felt anxious about putting weight on it… even after the doctor said I could.”p9 | “I wasn’t able to do any running…”p5 | “(My wife) and I ended up arguing…”p2 | “… I commenced on light duties at work.”p2 | “I had a fairly good deposit for a house… over the past 12 months I have slowly eaten away my savings account.”p10 | “The only problem I had was just fitting into shoes… I wanted to wear high heel shoes to my daughters wedding…”p1 | “the pills make me feel sick”p6 |
“It was weak because one leg was skinnier than the other… it felt like it might give way.”p12 | “Emotionally I was affected. I used to feel quite depressed and down a lot…”p10 | “Could not do anything. Could not even walk the dog, too painful.”p1 | “… virtually can’t socialize anymore.”p3 | “I didn’t do much around the house. I couldn’t house clean.”p5 | “…and I had to keep paying for those tablets they had me on.”p4 | “I put on 5-6kg by just sitting around… I was restricted by being stuck on my bed…”p4 | “… I had to start taking sleeping tablets”p2 |
“… I was very limited in my (ankle) movements”p4 | “it took so long… it was very frustrating”p4 | “I don’t go to soccer any more. At all. I haven’t been there.”p11 | “Your social life is affected in a way that you don’t want to go out…”p6 | “If it was sore, I didn’t want to go to (work), so I didn’t go”p8 | “I can’t date because I can’t get out and about and I can’t afford to date.”p12 | “I have put on weight as a result of the fracture.”p6 | “I needed some pain meds for a few weeks, but then it was fine”p5 |
“I could only walk for a certain amount of time before it hurt.”p5 | “It was more effort to do anything, I felt so tired all the time…”p8 | “I took on a lesser role… I modified the activity so it was less demanding on the ankle…”p2 | “My daughter got annoyed (with me) cause I needed her to drive me…”p1 | “I have had to change my job entirely because of my ankle injury… I am now not doing anything.”p10 | “… anything that I want to do outside of sitting in the lounge room costs me money I don’t have.”p3 | “… I now wear these silly slip-ons (shoes) everywhere.”p7 | “…the tablets at the start made me sleep a lot”p2 |