Validity and Reliability of the Foot and Ankle Ability Measure Turkish Version for Athletes
Validity and Reliability of the Foot and Ankle Ability Measure Turkish Version for Athletes
Sport activity induces a relevant risk for lower extremities especially ankle and foot structures. Athletes who participate in basketball, volleyball and soccer are predisposed. Self-reported outcome instruments have been used by clinicians to assess the treatment interventions effectiveness directed at patients with pathologies and identify impairments, disabilities and quality of life. The assessment of musculoskeletal injuries can be problem without clinical, radiological examination and on scores from patient-based questionnaires. The information from these questionnaires provides us good evidence if there is not interpretation of obtained scores. The Foot and Ankle Ability Measure (FAAM) is a self-reported outcome instrument for patients with foot and ankle disorders available in English, German, and French. The FAAM has a sports subscale and activity of daily living (ADL) subscale that can assess the activities that requires higher level. The aim of this study is to translate the FAAM into Turkish language, perform a cross-cultural adaptation, and investigate the reliability, validity of the translated version in athletic population
Inclusion Criteria:
Participants should be professional athletes
Age ranges must be 18-40 years old
Clinical diagnosis of ankle and foot injury
Injuries must to happened in sport activities.
Exclusion Criteria:
If athletes had injuries to hip, knee, lower leg within the previous 6 months before the study.
The history of surgery to the above-mentioned areas.
Coexisting musculoskeletal injuries in other body parts, or chronic conditions.