Hammer Toe Surgery Explained Podiatry Claw Toe Mallet Toe
Surgery of the Foot and Ankle: Popular Running Shoes: Project Lead: Nicholas Giovinco Contributing Authors: Kristen Diehl Doug Doxey Resource Consultant: Kelly Powers Producer: Nicholas Giovinco A HammerToe deformity, describes a pathological condition of abnormal or exaggerated contracture at the metatarsalphalangeal and interphalangeal joints of the toes. This is mainly due to an imbalance between the muscular flexors and extensors as well as intrinsic interossei and lumbrical muscles within the forefoot. A hammer toe deformity may present as one of three morphological variations. A true hammertoe deformity will exhibit dorsiflexion at the metatarsalphalangeal joint and plantar flexion at the proximal interphalangeal joint. Whereas a mallet toe solely results from a plantarflexory con
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