CHAPTER PREVIEW CHAPTER SYNOPSIS: This chapter describes management of the compromised or frankly failed total ankle replacement. Even though this chapter deals mainly with the Agility Total Ankle, the solutions…
CHAPTER PREVIEW CHAPTER SYNOPSIS: This chapter deals with the very complicated issue of dealing with varus or valgus deformities in the ankle in conjunction with an ankle replacement. A classification…
CHAPTER PREVIEW CHAPTER SYNOPSIS: This chapter focuses on the issues surrounding and implications of primary total ankle replacements. It will also give the reader background information about the history and…
CHAPTER PREVIEW CHAPTER SYNOPSIS: Angular deformities of the leg, whether due to previous trauma (most often) or congenital, pose a major additional challenge when planning and performing a total ankle…
CHAPTER PREVIEW CHAPTER SYNOPSIS: Tibiotalar arthritis in the young patient that warrants fusion is typically due to either posttraumatic or inflammatory ankle pathology. The decision for tibiotalar fusion is based…
CHAPTER PREVIEW CHAPTER SYNOPSIS: This chapter introduces the reader to “ankle joint preservation arthroplasty” and the role of ankle distraction, or arthrodiastasis, in the treatment of ankle arthritis. Evaluation of,…
CHAPTER PREVIEW CHAPTER SYNOPSIS: Biological alternatives to inorganic implant arthroplasty exist in the form of allograft implants to resurface the ankle. The talar and tibial bone–cartilage grafts are freshly harvested…
CHAPTER PREVIEW CHAPTER SYNOPSIS: Tibial osteotomies are used to improve the pain of ankle arthritis when there is deformity in the tibia, as seen after trauma or with congenital deformities….
CHAPTER PREVIEW CHAPTER SYNOPSIS: Ankle arthroscopy is becoming a more useful procedure to treat and possibly prevent ankle arthritis. Synovectomy, loose body removal, “meniscoid lesons,” repair of osteochondral lesions, and…
CHAPTER PREVIEW CHAPTER SYNOPSIS: This chapter discusses different tools used to assess the function of patients with ankle arthritis. Some of these tools are disease and location specific; most, however,…
