Open AccessLoss of Mechanical Ankle Function Is Not Compensated by the Distal Foot Joints in Patients with Ankle Osteoarthritis
Author(s) -
Maarten Eerdekens,
Kevin Deschamps,
Sander Wuite,
Giovanni Matricali
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1097/corr.0000000000001443
Subject(s) - medicine , ankle , osteoarthritis , foot (prosody) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , orthodontics , physical therapy , surgery , pathology , linguistics , philosophy , alternative medicine
Patients with isolated ankle osteoarthritis (OA) often demonstrate disturbed ankle biomechanics during walking. Clinicians often believe that this triggers the distal foot joints to compensate these altered ankle biomechanics and that these foot joints are consequently subjected to degenerative joint diseases due to overuse.