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 ...

Pain after a calcaneal fracture is common, with many potential sites and causes for continued pain. In any one patient, there may be more than one cause of pain. Continued severe pain may be due to a ...

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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 ...

A Haglund’s deformity can be referred to by a number of different names such as bony enlargement, prominent bump, pump bump, or retrocalcaneal exostosis. Just as confusing is how an excision of the ...

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).