Pickleball Is All the Rage, Here's Tips on Preventing Injuries
Pickleball has become wildly popular, but that may be fueling a rise in pickleball-related injuries. “It’s quickly becoming a sport of choice for adults over the age of 50,” said Dr. Brian Cole, an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He also plays pickleball.
Evidence-Based Opioid Education that Reduces Prescribing: The 10 Principles of Opioid Prescribing in Foot and Ankle Surgery
The United States Opioid Epidemic is a worsening public health crisis. We aim to determine if a voluntary educational intervention containing standard opioid and non-opioid analgesic prescribing ranges for common surgeries is effective in altering postoperative prescribing practice.
Do the outcomes of MIS justify the learning curve vs. open foot and ankle procedures?
In the past decade, MIS foot and ankle procedures have undergone several advancements that make it an excellent option for various procedures.MIS has gained popularity for procedures such as bunions, calcaneal osteotomies, Charcot plantar cheilectomies, combined first metatarsophalangeal arthroscopy/MIS cheilectomies and lesser metatarsal osteotomies.
Tips for performing MIS beaming for Charcot foot reconstruction
New MIS techniques have recently emerged in Charcot foot reconstruction that combines percutaneous deformity correction and fusion with intramedullary beaming to restore coronal and sagittal alignment with significantly reduced soft tissue dissection.
Development of a foot and ankle strengthening program for the treatment of plantar heel pain: a Delphi consensus study
People with plantar heel pain (PHP) have reduced foot and ankle muscle function, strength and size, which is frequently treated by muscle strengthening exercises. However, there has been little investigation of what exercises are used and there is no sound evidence base to guide practice. This study aimed to develop a consensus-driven progressive muscle strengthening program for PHP.
