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Chronic Ankle Instability: Results with Brostrom-Evans Procedure
| Albiñana Cuningham Juan, Macklin Vadell Alberto and Peratta Marcela* | |
| Cerviño Av. 4679, 2nd floor, 1426 Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
| Corresponding Author : | Marcela Peratta Cerviño Av. 4679, 2nd floor 1426 Buenos Aires, Argentina E-mail: marcelaperatta@gmail.com |
| Received March 12, 2013; Accepted April 12, 2013; Published April 15, 2013 | |
| Citation: Juan AC, Alberto MV, Marcela P (2013) Chronic Ankle Instability: Results with Brostrom-Evans Procedure. J Nov Physiother S3:007. doi:10.4172/2165-7025.S3-007 | |
| Copyright: © 2013 Juan AC, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
Ankle inversion injuries account for 40% of all sport injuries and up to 20-24% of these will have residual pain, instability, or a combination of both. There are two types of chronic ankle instability: functional and mechanical. In this study, we will retrospectively analyze the Brostrom-Evans technique used to treat the mechanical chronic instabilities. We have reviewed ten procedures in nine recreational athletes, 6 male and 4 female, one of which was bilateral. In two cases, a calcaneal osteotomy was associated to correct the hindfoot varus. The Brostrom-Evans technique solves the chronic instability problem by sacrificing the normal inversion movement of the ankle. We would recommend modifying the hindfoot varus and then performing a Brostrom-Evans plasty in those cases in which a calcaneus varus is associated to a chronic instability.
