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 ...

The Taylor Spatial Frame allows surgeons to change reductions through struts and offers new hope for the treatment of pilon fractures. Open techniques still provide the gold standard in treatment for ...

The calcaneus bone is the big heel bone at the back of the foot. Due to overuse a stress fracture can occur in the bone. It is common for soldiers who have to do a lot of marching or road runners.

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 ...

Latest FDA cleared products to round out UNITE hindfoot and ankle trauma portfolio NORTHFIELD, Ill., April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medline UNITE Foot & Ankle announced today the launch of its FDA ...

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 ...

Latest FDA cleared products to round out UNITE hindfoot and ankle trauma portfolio Created around the philosophy of intelligent design, the Medline UNITE Calcaneal Fracture Plating System enables ...