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 ...

Used in the appropriate patients, early operative intervention for calcaneal fractures may help avoid soft tissue contracture, lead to early joint motion and achieve a more accurate reduction, ...

Calcaneal fractures remain among the most challenging fractures encountered by orthopaedic traumatologists, but the technology exists today to treat any isolated calcaneal fracture. Critical to ...

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).

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.