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 ...

Between 1983 and 1995, we used subtalar arthrodesis to treat 16 consecutive patients for continued pain after an intra-articular calcaneal fracture. Average time to union was 3 months (2 to 4 months).

A 75-year-old woman was ascending an icy staircase when she had a sudden onset of right calf and heel pain, which resulted in abrupt dorsiflexion of her plantar-flexed right foot. She presented to the ...

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.

IN 1931 Dachtier 1 presented a study of 26 cases of "fractures of the anterior, superior portion of the os calcis due to indirect violence." This was followed by a report published independently by ...