Category: Surgical concepts

Classical open surgery

Forefoot surgery has changed a lot over the past 20 years in France. Procedures that concerned mostly the “soft tissues” (tendons, ligaments, joint envelops) spread to the bone itself. Nowadays, surgeons commonly perform bone...

Minimally invasive surgery

Mini invasive surgery is the result of the last 20 to 30 years’ evolution of forefoot surgical techniques. The universe of these techniques splits in two big kinds, which complement and oppose one to...

Percutaneous surgery

A recent surgery in France Born in the USA, it is nevertheless in Europe that percutaneous surgery has known an important soar in the 2000’s. It was introduced in Spain then in France by...

Same day surgery

Same-day surgery, or outpatient surgery, designates an organisation of care in a way that the entire operative procedures are realized in a same-day hospitalization without staying one night in a care service. It presupposes,...

chirurgie

Having surgery?

Which symptoms may lead to surgery? What are the symptoms not to take in account? Traditionally, surgery for the correction of forefoot deformities has a bad reputation, due to peri-opertive pain, surgical imperfections, sequelae...