What is the technical name for your heel bone?
Calcaneous
Which pathology occurs in small joints?
What is the name of the fracture where the metatarsals are dislocated and fractured from the tarsal bones?
Lisfranc's fracture
What is the most common ankle sprain?
Inversion ankle sprain
What type of treatment is this?
Plate and screw
What are the 3 sections of bone in the foot?
Tarsals, Metatarsals & Phalanges
What does this x- ray show?
Osteoarthritis
The navicular is distal to the___
talus.
Identify the name of the fracture where the lateral and medial malleolus are fractured with a dislocation
Pott's
What treatment does x-ray show?
Intramedullary nail
What is the technical term for the distal end of the tibia?
Medial Malleolus
A benign tumour. In other words, they're bumps of bone that grow out of one of your bones.
Exostosis
Identify the pathology where you might see clinical symptoms and signs of swelling around an ankle but no fractures.
sprain
What treatment is shown in this x-ray?
Total knee replacement
What is the name of the bone that helps make up the ankle joint, and is situated above the calcaneus?
Talus
Build up of this substance causes microcrystals that can destroy bone and form hard lumps. Commonly known as Gout.
Uric acid
What is the condition when the great toe deviates laterally?
Bunion- Hallux Valgus
What is the condition where there is an excess, benign growth in the calcaneus?
Calcaneal Spur
A simple, undisplaced fractured is treated with _______.
Plaster or fiber cast
What is the name of the bones that are located beneath the first metarsophalangeal joint – act to reduce pressure in weight bearing and to increase advantage of the flexor tendons of the Great Toe?
Sesamoid bones
______ is a deformity of the whole foot that is present at birth.
clubfoot
A transverse fracture of the 5th metatarsal is what injury?
Avulsion fracture
How would you position patients that have obvious trauma to their fractured limbs?
Do not move them-
Perform modified views like a horizontal beam instead.
A patella fracture is often treated with _______.
surgical wires.