Georgia residents in need of ankle surgery will now have access to the innovative Shotel™ Ankle Arthrodesis Nail System, a new device for treating end-stage ankle arthritis from Shotel Medical. The ...

The patient with a stable, painless, fibrous nonunion may be successfully treated nonoperatively or with revision surgery. Scranton and colleagues [12] and Said and coworker [13] reported revision ...

In rare cases, when the ligaments do not heal properly, an orthopedic surgeon may evaluate your ankle for possible surgical treatment. Ankle arthritis causes chronic pain in the joint, often due to ...

Owing to the risk for septic arthritis, traumatic arthrotomies are an urgent surgical problem for the treating orthopaedic surgeon. Traditionally, diagnosis is with the saline load test (SLT), ...