Care guide for ORIF of an Ankle Fracture. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
5,6 Patients with subfibular ossicles can be symptomatic or asymptomatic; asymptomatic ossicles may become symptomatic due to ankle sprain or overuse. If conservative treatments fail, surgery should then be considered. For small ossicles less than 10 mm in diameter, ossicle resection combined with...
In 2012 Eekhof et al's Cochrane review concluded that post operative interventions such as: antibiotics; manuka honey; povidone-iodine with paraffin; hydrogel with paraffin or paraffin gauze showed no significant differences on infection rates, pain or healing time. This study compared the efficacy o...
matic tourniquet on the upper thigh.9 The semitendinosus tendon autograft was harvested with Rehabilitation Protocol a minimally invasive technique. Two small incisions of 2 cm each were made for tendon harvesting. The proximal Postoperatively the patient was immobilized in a splint in a one was ...
Detailed recovery / rehabilitation protocol:Phase I: Weeks 1-3GoalsSafe non weight bearing crutches /walker/ knee-walker Incision care-keep clean and dry. Shower boot or saran wrap with showers until closed. If concern of wound, please take a picture and refer patient back to our office. ...
Following ankle joint replacement, a post-op protocol is very important in maintaining the good healing in the body as well as the performance of the joint replacement. And we generally will immobilize the patients for the first three weeks in a well-padded dressing in a splint, followe...
Simulation protocol In our study, the simulation calculated the assistance moment curve under two conditions: one considering the ankle axes using Eq. (9) and the other without using Eq. (4). The applied assistive force was held constant at 1, and the coordinates of point P_{3 0} were ...
He gives his patients his direct pager number in case you have any post op issues. I used it and he called me immediately and remedied the issue. He even called me the next morning to make sure I was doing ok. I can’t say enough good things about him. If you need foot surgery,...
Foot and ankle sports injuries encompass a wide spectrum of conditions from simple contusions or sprains that resolve within days to more severe injuries that change the trajectory of an athlete’s sporting career. If missed, severe injuries could lead t
preoperative diagnosis, re-operation rate and patient- reported outcomes.Methods:We compared two homogeneous groups of 16 patients (32 in total, average age 40.6 years) operated for a fracture of the distal tibia and/or fibula treated with ORIF.For all fractures the AO classification was used....