The treatment of calcaneal fractures continues to be controversial. These fractures present many challenges to the treating surgeon, including bony comminution, sometimes severe soft tissue envelope ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Calcaneal spur' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A foot and ankle surgeon at Cedars Sinai Medical Center presented his technique for surgical intervention of ...

Objective Calcaneal apophysitis, is a relatively common cause of heel pain in children. Very few randomised studies have evaluated treatment options. This trial compared the effectiveness of currently ...

Operative procedures are shown in Table 2. Average time from injury to arthrodesis was 22 months (range, 6 months to 5 years). Repeated triple arthrodesis was done in one patient who had nonunion ...

Calcaneal quantitative ultrasound (QUS) has comparable diagnostic accuracy as dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), the gold standard for diagnosing osteoporosis. Although it cannot replace DXA for ...

1 Department of Optometry and Radiography, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China 2 Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, ...

The tarsals are the long bones of the foot. Just below the bony bit on the inside of the ankle (medial malleolus) is a passage where two nerves run. These nerves are called the medial and lateral ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...