METHOD FOR REARFOOT REPAIR IN DEFECT OF PLANTAR INVESTING TISSUE AND MISSING HEEL BONE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61B17/56 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, specifically to foot surgery. A shin and a foot are fixed with an external fixation apparatus. Fixation pins are brought through ankle, metatarsal and shin bones at the level of their middle and distal one-third. They are tensed and fixed to supports. The foot is position in a maximum plantar flexion. Opposite ends of the defect on the plantar surface of the rearfoot are fixed with grab hooks free ends of which are fixed in a traction assembly of the apparatus supports, and the apparatus is fixed in this position. In the postoperative period, a reserve which is used to close a defect and wound closure, is formed gradually along the defect by applying the traction force to the tissues fixed by the grab hooks. Until healed, the foot is held in the plantar flexion, and then brought into the normal correction gradually and moved backwards to align the shin bone axis along the ankle neck.

EFFECT: method provides the support function of the foot with the missing heel bone.

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