Paediatric rigid flat foot

By |2023-06-14T10:44:39+10:00June 1st, 2023|Bunions, Flat feet, Foot pain, Post operative|

Blog's main page This 16-year-old had been struggling since he commenced walking – marked and multiple symptoms on the foot, including lateral midfoot and rearfoot pain, and bunion formation. However, his main symptoms were being experienced on the medial longitudinal arch. The non-weight-bearing image was taken on the day of his surgery, but, when he first [...]

Minimally invasive metatarsal osteotomy (keyhole surgery)

By |2023-06-14T10:44:59+10:00May 18th, 2023|Bunions, Keyhole surgery, Post operative|

Blog's main page This is a patient who is approximately eight months postoperative from an Austin/chevron bunionectomy and correction of plantar plate pathology with medial drift of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th toes at the MTPJs. Typically, this would have involved large incisions, long recuperation and scarring with possible K-wires coming out of the toes. With [...]

Post-operative wounds

By |2023-02-11T19:10:03+11:00April 29th, 2022|Foot pain, Hallux limitus, MTPJ, Post operative|

Blog's main page The images show how a foot can look at six weeks post-op. This patient had chronic painful 1st and 2nd MTPJs. On clinical and radiographic imaging, it was shown she had hallux limitus with an abducted hallux and chronic overload to the 2nd MTPJ. The image on the left is intra-operative and shows [...]

Plantar fasciotomy post-op

By |2022-07-08T15:15:48+10:00February 18th, 2022|Heel pain, Post operative|

Blog's main page Following on from a post (Chronic Heel Pain, October 2021) I shared a few weeks ago about the minimally invasive plantar fasciotomy for chronic recalcitrant plantar fasciosis/fasciitis. A patient presented this week with a problem, involving DJD/OA of the left 2nd MTPJ. She is an existing patient, whom I carried out a plantar [...]

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