Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Men and women with end-stage ankle arthritis benefited from total ankle replacement and ankle arthrodesis, with ...

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The rate of pseudoarthrosis after ankle arthrodesis has been reported to range from 0% [4] to 41%. [5] In a study of 78 ankle fusions, Frey and associates [6] found a nonunion rate of 41%. Patients ...

This week we are going to discuss something which is less common but is becoming more and more commonly performed. That is to surgically fix an arthritic ankle. In cases of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid ...

Total ankle replacement, or ankle arthroplasty, has increasingly been used in the last 15 years to treat crippling ankle arthritis as the surgical techniques and the materials used for prostheses have ...

Ankle arthritis is a common condition characterized by chronic, progressive pain in the ankle joint. It is often a result of previous trauma, though can have other causes such as blood clotting or ...

Diane Shaughnessy knows the pain of ankle arthritis. "It's as if a vice was constantly being turned and squeezed," Shaughnessy said. "Go to bed with pain, sleep with pain and wake up with pain." Joey ...

EVERETT — People with severe ankle arthritis have lost the nearly frictionless cartilage surface that provides smooth gliding and rotation that allows the foot to rotate freely and painlessly. While ...

Arthritis involves degeneration of the cartilage in a joint and can cause pain and stiffness in the joint. The pain is often described as an aching pain and can worsen if left untreated. Most people ...

Tibiotalar fusion remains the mainstay of surgical treatment for end-stage arthritis of the ankle joint. Pseudoarthrosis may occur for a variety of reasons including concomitant medical illness, ...

When people think of arthritis, affected body parts that typically come to mind are the knee, the hip, and maybe the lower back. But the fact is that wherever there are joints in the body, they are ...