High ankle sprains are a common injury that occur, especially in sports. This article discusses what a high ankle sprain is and treatment options to try to help patients return to their sport as soon as possible.
Calcaneal fractures are fractures or breaks of the heel bone. They can be very painful and lead to problems longterm, especially if joint surfaces are fractured. The most common way we see these occur is falls from a height, such as falling off of a ladder or falling off of a roof.
If you have a joint depression type fracture, we typically get a CT scan to evaluated the subtalar joint. If the joint surfaces are not aligned correctly, we normally recommend surgically realigning the joint with a plate and screws. There are some newer minimally invasive techniques that can help minimize some of the complications we see with the larger open incisions.
Another calcaneal fracture that happens frequently is an anterior process fracture. These typically happen with inversion ankle injuries when a strong ligament pulls off the piece of bone. If they are large enough fractures that extend in the calcaneal cuboid joint, we sometimes treat them with screw placement or with excising the piece of bone if it becomes more chronically painful.
The last type of calcaneal fracture that occurs is a posterior avulsion fracture where the achilles tendon pulls off a piece of the heel bone. We see mid-substance achilles tendon ruptures more commonly than these type of fractures, but if they do occur, we typically recommend surgically repairing these to try and give the best longterm functional outcome possible.
If you have any foot or ankle pain, it is not normal and should be evaluated by a podiatrist/ foot and ankle surgeon as soon as possible. Call us at 719-488-4664, so our Colorado Springs podiatrists can help you today!
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High ankle sprains are a common injury that occur, especially in sports. This article discusses what a high ankle sprain is and treatment options to try to help patients return to their sport as soon as possible.
Tarsal coalitions are a foot condition where 2 separate bones of the foot are abnormally attached together. The 2 most common places that these occur are between the talus and calcaneus and between the navicular and the calcaneus.
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Due to the current weather, we are going to have a delayed start for Monday, March 15. The office will open at 10am.
At Foot and Ankle Institute of Colorado, all of our surgeons are expertly trained to give you the most minimally invasive options to get you back on your feet as soon as possible!
Since we have been dealing with COVID-19 for quite some time now, we wanted to update you on the ongoing efforts at Foot and Ankle Institute of Colorado to keep you safe.