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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 96-B, Issue SUPP_2 | Pages 19 - 19
1 Jan 2014
Kelsall N Chapman A Sangar A Farrar M Taylor H
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Introduction:

The dorsal closing wedge calcaneal osteotomy has been described for the treatment of insertional pathology of the tendo-achilles. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the technique using outcome measures.

Method:

This was a prospective case series. Patients were included if they had tendo-achilles insertional pathology (calcific tendonitis, bursitis or Haglund's deformity). A short extended lateral approach was used and a 1 cm dorsally based closing wedge osteotomy of the calcaneus performed. Fixation was with 2 staples. Patients were scored pre-operatively and at 6 and 12 months post-operatively using the VISA-A and AOFAS ankle-hindfoot scores. Results were analysed with the paired student t-test.