Compression triple fusion using screws fixation

ABSTRACT

Fourteen patients complaining of painful and/or deformed foot resistant to conservative management treated by using triple fusion were included in this study aiming to evaluate the results of the efficiency of double approach exposure and compression internal fixation in improving the results of triple fusion. Ten feet had peroneal spastic foot, three had post traumatic arthritis and one had unstable paralytic foot. All were treated using medial and lateral exposure and rigid internal fixation. After a mean follow up period of 19 months, pain, gait, walking ability of the patients were improved in all but one patients. Triple fusion is a good salvage option for the treatment of resistant painful foot, if proper surgical technique is followed