BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the postoperative pain levels in patients undergoing osteosynthesis of the calcaneus with either a popliteal nerve block or an ankle block. METHODS A retrospective analysis of all consecutive patients undergoing operative fixation of a calcaneal fracture via a sinus tarsi approach between August 2012 and April 2017 in a single foot/ankle special...

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2006;19:402–405 A 42-year-old woman with lateral left ankle pain presented to the orthopaedic clinic. She complained of unrelenting left ankle pain following a fall a week earlier. The plain radiographs of her left ankle revealed no evidence of fracture. Following her visit to the clinic, the orthopaedic surgeon ordered a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the l...

Sinus Tarsi Syndrome is a cause of chronic ankle instability and pain. MRI of the ankle has been the modality of choice for diagnosing the condition. However, SPECT-CT offers an alternate modality for diagnosing and evaluation of the condition. We present the case of a footballer who was suffering from chronic right leg pain despite receiving physiotherapy. He was being managed as a case of a c...

INTRODUCTION Accessory ossicles of the foot are a common finding. Although mostly asymptomatic, they can gain clinical relevance by trauma or stress on the complex biomechanical system of the foot. There are few reports on the entity of symptomatic calcaneus secundarius. Furthermore, the current literature does not address the need for awareness of calcaneus secundarius as a differential diagno...

Case i.-E. G., a housewife and part-time domestic, aged 59, suddenly felt pain around the ankle while walking. Later the ankle became swollen but she remained active for six weeks until she attended her doctor, who referred her to Upton Hospital, Slough. On examination, the lower leg and ankle were swollen, with maximal tenderness over the lower tibia and fibula. Ankle movements were restricted...

Total ankle arthroplasty was developed to reduce pain and retain motion of the ankle joint in patients with osteoarthritis much like its total hip and knee counterparts. Orthopaedic surgeons are well equipped to evaluate and treat patients with end-stage hip or knee arthritis; however, the management of patients with ankle arthritis represents a challenge to both general orthopaedic surgeons an...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the kinesio tape immediately after its application and after a duathlon competition on calf pain and the ankle range of motion in duathletes. A sample of 28 duathletes (age 29.11 ± 10.35 years; body height 172.57 ± 6.17 cm; body mass 66.63 ± 9.01 kg; body mass index 22.29 ± 2.00 kg/m(2)) were recruited from the competitors in a duathlon spr...

OBJECTIVE To determine the sources and magnitude of residual morbidity after successful treatment of tibial nonunion using the Ilizarov device and techniques. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. SETTING A level 1 trauma centre. PATIENTS Sixteen patients with healed tibial nonunion. INTERVENTION Application of the Ilizarov device and techniques to obtain union of a previous ununited tib...