Orthopedic Journal of China 2009;17(21):1636-1638

Surgical treatment of hallux valgus

Kunkun SHENG ; Chen WANG

Keywords

hallux valgus; surgery treatment; treatment effectiveness

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Hallux valgus is a frequent forefoot disease, which has the high incidence, more happened among females, hallux valgus becomes more serious along with the age increasing, it usually needed to be done with surgery treatment owing to deformity and pain. The surgery with regard to hallux valgus had emerged widespread at the end of the 18~(th) century, most of the operation styles had been eliminated due to their disadvantages along with the carried out and the follow up judgment of the operation styles , however, some operation styles had been certified effective, which have been modified and consummated endlessly, have been added in the contemporary therapeutic methods. Operation styles mostly consist of soft issue repairment, osteotomy, arthroplasty and arthrodesis , selecting the operation styles reasonably is the key point of guarantee the treatment effectiveness.