Progressive collapsing foot deformity (PCFD) is a complex foot deformity with varying degrees of hindfoot valgus, forefoot abduction, forefoot varus, and collapse or hypermobility of the medial column. In its management, muscle and tendon balancing are important to address the deformity. Peroneus brevis is the primary evertor of the foot, and the strongest antagonist to the tibialis posterior. Moreover, peroneus longus is an important stabilizer of the medial column. To our knowledge, the role of peroneus brevis to peroneus longus tendon transfer in cases of PCFD has not been reported.

This study evaluates patient reported outcomes including pain scores and any associated surgical complications for patients with PCFD undergoing isolated peroneus brevis to longus tendon transfer and gastrocnemius recession.

Patients with symptomatic PCFD who had failed non-operative treatment, and underwent isolated soft tissue correction with peroneus brevis to longus tendon transfer and gastrocnemius recession were included. Procedures were performed by a single surgeon at a large University affiliated teaching hospital between January 1 2016 to March 31 2021. Patients younger than 18 years old, or undergoing surgical correction for PCFD which included osseous correction were excluded.

Patient demographics, medical comorbidities, procedures performed, and pre and post-operative patient related outcomes were collected via medical chart review and using the appropriate questionnaires.

Outcomes assessed included Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for foot and ankle pain as well as sinus tarsi pain (0-10), patient reported outcomes on EQ-5D, and documented complications.

Statistical analysis was utilized to report change in VAS and EQ-5D outcomes using a paired t-test. Statistical significance was noted with p<0.05.

We analysed 43 feet in 39 adults who fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Mean age was 55.4 ± 14.5 years old. The patient reported outcome mean results and statistical analysis are shown in Table one below. Mean pre and post-operative foot and ankle VAS pain was 6.73, and 3.13 respectively with a mean difference of 3.6 (p<0.001, 95% CI 2.6, 4.6). Mean pre and post-operative sinus tarsi VAS pain was 6.03 and 3.88, respectively with a mean difference of 2.1 (p<0.001, 95% CI 0.9, 3.4). Mean pre and post-operative EQ-5D Pain scores were 2.19 and 1.83 respectively with a mean difference of 0.4 (p=0.008, 95% CI 0.1, 0.6). Mean follow up time was 18.8 ± 18.4 months.

Peroneus brevis to longus tendon transfer and gastrocnemius recession in the management of symptomatic progressive collapsing foot deformity significantly improved sinus tarsi and overall foot and ankle pain. Most EQ-5D scores improved, but did not reach statistically significant values with the exception of the pain score. This may have been limited by our cohort size. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the literature describing clinical results in the form of patient reported outcomes following treatment with this combination of isolated soft tissue procedures for the treatment of PCFD.

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Aims

Metal-on-metal total hip replacements (MoM THRs) are frequently revised. However, there is a paucity of data on clinical outcomes following revision surgery in this cohort. We report on outcomes from the largest consecutive series of revisions from MoM THRs and consider pre-revision factors which were prognostic for functional outcome.

Aims

Several national studies have shown that the rates of joint replacement are rising and this increase may be greater than that expected by population ageing. The aim of this study was to assess local rates of joint replacement at a district general hospital (DGH) and to investigate whether there had been a change in pre-operative functional status of patients over the study period to account for any change in rates of arthroplasty.

Introduction

Large head total hip arthroplasty (THA) reduces dislocation rates and provides a theooretically larger range of motion. We hypothesised that this would translate into greater improvement in functional scores when compared to 28mm metal-on-polyethylene THA at 5 years. We believe ours to be the first in vivo comparison study.

It is established good practice that hip and knee replacements should have regular follow-up and for the past seven years at the North Hampshire Hospital a local joint register has been used for this purpose and we compare this with results of the Swedish and UK national and the Trent Regional registries.

Since March 1999, all primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasties performed at North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke have been prospectively recorded onto a database set up by one of the senior authors (JMB). Data from patients entered in the first five years of the register were analysed. All patients have at least one year clinical and radiological review then a minimum of yearly postal follow-up. 3266 operations (1524 hips and 1742 knees) were performed under the care of 13 consultants. Osteoarthritis was the most common primary diagnosis in over 75% of hips and knees. Our revision burden was 7.5% (10.2% hips and 3.5% knees). As of 31/12/2006 6.2% of patients had died and 5.5% were lost to follow-up.

Revision rates were 1.5% and 1.4% for primary total hip and knee replacements respectively.

Our data analysis of revisions and patello-femoral replacements has allowed us to change our practice following local audit which is ongoing. Oxford scores at 2 years had improved from a mean of 19 and 21 pre-operatively to 40 and 39 for primary hips and knees respectively. Our costs are estimated at approximately £35 per patient for their lifetime on the register.

Compared to other registries:

Our dataset is more complete and comprehensive

The process of femoral impaction grafting requires vigorous impaction to obtain adequate stability but the force of impaction has not been determined. This process has been reported to result in femoral fractures with rates reaching 16%. The aims of this study were to determine the threshold force required for femoral impaction grafting, to determine the affect cortical thickness, canal diameter and bone mineral density (BMD) have on this threshold force and to measure subsidence of an Exeter prosthesis following impaction at the threshold force.

Adult sow femurs were prepared and placed through a DEXA scanner and the BMD and canal diameter measured. Thirty five femurs were impacted with morsellised bone chips and an increasing force of 0.5kN was applied until the femur fractured. Using callipers the cortical thickness of the bone was measured along the fracture line. Once the threshold force was determined 5 femurs were impacted to this threshold force and an Exeter stem was cemented into the neomedullary canal and a 28mm Exeter head attached. Axial cyclic loading was performed between 440N (swing phase of gait) and 1320N (stance phase of gait) for 150,000 cycles at a frequency of 3Hz. The position sensor of the hydraulic testing machine measured the subsidence.

29 tests were successfully completed. The threshold force was found to be 4kN. There was no significant correlation between the load at fracture and the cortex: canal ratio or the bone mineral density. Following impaction with the maximum force of 4kN the average subsidence for the 5 femurs was 0.276mm (range 0.235 – 0.325mm). In this animal study the threshold force was 4kN. Minimal axial subsidence of the implant occurred when impacting the graft with this threshold force. We therefore achieved a stable construct without fracture which is the ultimate goal for the revision hip surgeon.