Arthroscopic Treatment of Ankle Instability: Brostrom.

Foot Ankle Clin

Department of Orthopedics, Blue Ridge Division of Emergeortho, Foot and Ankle Center, 2585 Hendersonville Road, Arden, NC 28704, USA.

Published: December 2018

Over the last 10 years, significant advances have been made and successful techniques have now been developed that effectively treat ankle instability via the arthroscope.Currently arthroscopic lateral ligament repair techniques can be grouped into "arthroscopic-assisted techniques," "all-arthroscopic techniques," and "all-inside techniques." Recent studies have proven these arthroscopic techniques to be a simple, safe, and biomechanically equivalent, stable alternative to open Brostrom Gould lateral ligament reconstruction.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fcl.2018.07.003DOI Listing

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