Things You Need to Know
This handle is used for 10 and 15 blades
What is a number 3 handle
Dome osteotomies of metatarsals one through five
What is a Berman – Gartland procedure
Transfer of the Extensor Digitorum Longus into the lesser metatarsals
What is a Hibbs tendon transfer?
A simple bunionectomy - just shave off the medial bump
What is a Silver
An opening dorsal wedge osteotomy of the medial cuneiform
What is a Cotton?
The fifth executive Director of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, he navigated the college through the APMA secession.
Who is Chris Mahaffey?
When your heart rate is below 60 beats per minute
What is Bradycardia?
Oblique wedge osteotomy of metatarsals one and five, with rotational osteotomies from distal dorsal to proximal plantar of the central metatarsals and sometimes the fifth metatarsal instead of the wedge osteotomy.
What is a Lepird procedure
Transfer the Extensor Hallucis Longus into the distal first metatarsal, usually combined with an interphalangeal joint arthrodesis of the Hallux
What is a Jones teno-suspension?
This “new” procedure was originally advocated in the literature in 1911, but was first described in the American literature in 1934 in The Journal of Surgery Gynecology and Obstetrics
What is the Lapidus?
This procedure places an implant into the sinus tarsi to prevent excess pronation
What is an Arthroereisis
First female president of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons
Who is Mary Crawford?
The value of how stiff an object is, stress over strain
What is the Youngs Modulus of elasticity?
Closing base wedge of metatarsals one through five
Steytler - Van Der Walt procedure
This tendon transfer is performed by placing the anterior tibial tendon in a notch in the navicular to lift up the arch
What is a Young’s teno-suspension
The “Z” osteotomy of the first metatarsal
What is a Scarf?
An opening medial wedge calcaneal osteotomy
What is a Silver?
The first editor of the Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery
Who is Richard Reinherz
Soft tissue will react and respond according to the matter in which it is mechanically stressed.
What is Davis’s law?
Excision of bases of the central three metatarsals and osteotomy the fifth metatarsal and joint immobilization of the first metatarsocuneiform joint
What is a Peabody - Muro procedure
The poster tibial tendon, anterior tibial tendon and peroneus longus tendon are transferred for foot drop
What is the Bridal procedure?
The osteotomy is parallel to the weight bearing plane, from dorsal distal to plantar proximal – kind of a Weil for the first metatarsal
What is a Mau?
This procedure fractures the metatarsal head, in attempt to reduce pressure under the affected metatarsal without transferring excessive pressure to adjacent metatarsals. Frequently performed with a rongeur
What is osteoclasis?
The first Podiatric surgery teaching hospital
What is Civic Hospital?
The diameter of a 3-0 suture
What is 0.2mm?
Arthrodesis of the first metatarsal cuneiform joint with an osteotomy of the central three metatarsals and a lateral closing base wedge of the cuboid
What is a McCormick – Blount procedure
The Flexor Digitorum Longus is transferred to correct a flexible hammertoe
What is a Girdlestone Taylor?
A Straight osteotomy from dorsal proximal to plantar distal
What is a Ludloff?
This triple arthrodesis involves complete excision of the navicular and fusing the talus to the cuneiforms.
What is a Dunn
The 66th president of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons
Who is Laurence Rubin DPM FACFAS