Conservative treatment of asymmetric ankle osteoarthritis

Schmid, Timo; Krause, Fabian G. (2013). Conservative treatment of asymmetric ankle osteoarthritis. Foot and ankle clinics, 18(3), pp. 437-448. Elsevier 10.1016/j.fcl.2013.06.003

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This review article summarizes the currently available (poor) evidence of conservative treatment of asymmetric ankle osteoarthritis in the literature and adds the authors' experience with the particular technique. The use of dietary supplementation, viscosupplementation, platelet-rich plasma, nonsteroidal anti-inflammotory drugs, corticosteroid injections, physical therapy, shoe modifications and orthoses, and patient's education in asymmetric ankle osteoarthritis is outlined. There definitively is a place for conservative treatment with reasonable success in patients whose ankles do not qualify anymore for joint-preserving surgery and in patients with medical or orthopedic contraindications for realignment surgery, total ankle replacement, and ankle arthrodesis.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Further Contribution)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Orthopaedic, Plastic and Hand Surgery (DOPH) > Clinic of Orthopaedic Surgery
UniBE Contributor:	Schmid, Timo Georg Johannes, Krause, Fabian
Subjects:	600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
ISSN:	1083-7515
Publisher:	Elsevier
Language:	English
Submitter:	Stephanie Schmutz
Date Deposited:	08 Apr 2014 11:51
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:29
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/j.fcl.2013.06.003
PubMed ID:	24008210
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/43297