Ankle Arthroscopy Techniques Developed by the Amsterdam Foot and Ankle School /

• Main Author: Dijk, C. Niek van (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Orthopedics.; Sports medicine.; Surgery.; Minimally invasive surgery.; Traumatology.; Physiotherapy.; Medicine & Public Health.; Sports Medicine.; Traumatic Surgery.; Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Ankle injuries are often sport related and pose a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Over the past 25 years, Niek van Dijk, founder of the Amsterdam Foot and Ankle School and author of this book, has developed a new philosophy of ankle arthroscopy. It entails a comprehensive approach which includ...

Table of Contents:

• GENERAL ASPECTS: Preoperative evaluation and imaging
• Arthroscopic anatomy
• Instrumentation
• Complications in ankle arthroscopy. ANTERIOR ANKLE ARTHROSCOPY: Anterior ankle arthroscopy: general principles
• Anterior ankle impingement
• Osteochondral lesions
• Ankle Instability
• The role of arthroscopy for chronic pain problems after supination trauma
• Arthroscopic ankle arthrodesis. POSTERIOR ANKLE ARTHROSCOPY: Endoscopic treatment of hindfoot disorders: general principles
• Posterior Ankle Impingement
• Posterior talar osteochondral defect
• Flexor hallucis longus release
• Deltoid ligament pathology
• Retrograde drilling for large cystic lesions
• Other indications posterior compartment ankle joint. OTHER ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURES: Subtalar arthroscopy
• Subtalar arthrodesis
• Endoscopic calcaneoplasty
• Achilles tendoscopy
• Peroneal tendoscopy
• Recurrent peroneal tendon dislocation
• Posterior tibial tendoscopy
• Arthroscopy of the first metatarsophalangeal joint.