I would like to stress the importance of the diagnosis and treatment of asymmetries in this issue. Many patients are wandering around with a raised insole of several millimeters or centimeters without having examined them thoroughly. From my point of view, it is more harmful for the body in the long-term to use an inappropriately […]
Ankle orthoses, also known as AFO (ankle foot orthosis), are devices (braces) frequently used in our day-to-day practice among patients who have severe dynamic anomalies. This kind of orthesis is like an external brace adapted to the lower extremity that modifies the neuromuscularskeletal structure as well as its functionality.The ankle foot brace makes a plantar […]
In this issue I will show you the amputations more frequently gained that come to visit to my office. The amputations are the only possible treatment to an affection situation of a member with a null and void answer to other medicochirurgical treatments more conservative. The amputation has many causes such as for example, vascular […]
When we speak about the diabetic foot we are referring to a summary of pathologies which have an impact on the foot as a result of the Diabetes Mellitus which the patient suffers. Diabetes is a chronic disease which affects to a vast number of people causing them a series of serious complications and a […]
The unguinal pathology produces a lot of surgical operations confronted to other surgeries which affects to the foot. There are countless techniques described which depend of the toe state, and of every professional’s skill and experience. The surgical variability takes in from the complete extirpation of the nail, the only resection from tender parts and […]
The osteoma is a benign osseous tumor the origin of which is in the bone cortical. Statistically, it develops more in the bones that morphologically longer in young males. They are slow growth tumors and according to bibliographies, they are painless. (They are described like this from the point of view that they are uncommon […]
The transmetatarsal amputation is one of the most surgical resections in foot. This kind of amputations are usually made as a consequence of serious infections –very frequent in diabetic patients-, vascular alterations and traumatisms from several causes. Sometimes, a transmetatarsal amputation is better than to keep rigid or deformed toes which may alter the correct […]
We define rheumatoid foot as the foot affected by inflammatory or rheumatic diseases in multiple joints. The most common symptoms the rheumatoid foot presents are: pain, stiffness, deformity and numbness. The most common rheumatic pathologies are: rheumatoid arthritis, arthrosis and psoriatic arthropathy. • Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic inflammatory malady of corrective tissue. It is […]
The Hallux Varus is a deformity of the first radius which has a deviation of the great toe towards a medial or tibial direction. Visually, it is the antithesis of hallux valgus or bunion. We can see a supination of the great toe and a negative metatarsophalangeal angle. This anomaly has several causes: Functional: as […]
The hallux extensus consists of the dorsiflexion or dorsal extension of the first radius. Its origin may be congenital or acquired and it is mainly caused by: a paralysis, involving brain-vascular accidents and neuromuscular diseases, among others; due to different types of alterations at the metatarsophalangeal and interphalangeal joint, such as the shortening of the […]
