Ankle replacement surgery, also known as total ankle arthroplasty (TAA), is a procedure designed to relieve pain and maintain ...

It can commonly happen from playing sports, walking on uneven surfaces, or falling ... the deltoid ligament (the main stabilizer of the ankle joint) on the inside of the ankle.

Thus, loading stress is concentrated on the front of the ankle and osteoarthritis develops. In addition, the amount of anterior opening of the distal tibial joint surface increases in ...

Surface EMG electrodes were placed 2 cm apart centre to centre ... After the skin had been anaesthetised, the ankle joint proper was injected with 10 ml sterile saline through a medial approach (fig 1 ...

This movement only occurs at the ankle. The table summarises the body locations and types of movements associated with each type of joint.

Physiotherapist Andrew O’Brien on how ankles get sprained, and the best course of treatment for the fastest recovery ...

1 2 Shoe–surface friction is generally high in indoor sports ... in significantly lowering both fear of ankle sprain injury (p<0.001) and pain in the ankle joint (p<0.001) over the course of the trial ...