Osteotomy fixation integrity is important to minimize interfragment motion and maintain correction during healing, and our clinical observations suggest that patient age and bone quality affect fixation stability and ultimately the clinical outcome.
Involvement of both hindfoot and forefoot and a stiff deformity, hardly correctable passively to any degree, and/or resistant intraoperative deformity after soft tissue releases were indications for an Ilizarov frame application, so to gradually improve and maintain correction, in children older than 3 years of age.
When comparing the closed wedge technique with the hemicallotasis technique, the hemicallotasis technique show advantages of archived and maintained correction and less risk of complications [19].
In cases of severe equinovarus deformity, especially of neurogenic origin, fusion of the subtalar joint is an essential step in achieving and maintaining correction.
Studies comparing the closed wedge and the open wedge techniques with internal fixation show the advantages of the closed wedge technique with archived and maintained correction and less risk of complications [17, 18].
A 12-month follow-up period showed that Aquamid still maintained correction and that more subjects rated the improvement with Aquamid as improved than with Restylane.
In phase two of treatment (maintaining correction) muscle function continues to develop though the length of the toe flexors and morphology seem to decrease.
All have been found to be successful in maintaining correction of the reduced fracture however volar plating has more recently become the favourable choice for managing distal radius fractures especially in more complex fracture patterns and/or osteoporotic bone [ 6- 8].
(B ) Antero-posterior and lateral views of the toe-to-groin plaster casts used to maintain the corrections obtained by manipulating the left foot of the baby in (A ).
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Surgery, if needed, can greatly reduce the degree of scoliosis; it is followed by bracing for several months to maintain the correction.
