The extensor tendons and the tendo Achillis are tense and prominent.
The anterior portion of the foot is shortened while the heel is lengthened and the tendo Achillis is very prominent.
In this way the tendo Achillis and the plantar fascia are stretched, and the dorsal flexion is secured by laying the patient on the face with the knee bent and the front of the thigh resting on the table.
In a few weeks the wound was healed, but he began to walk badly, presenting a contracture of the calf with retraction of the tendo Achillis.
I was unable to straighten my ankle or knee, and it was thought at one time that my tendo Achillis would have to be severed.
It was now determined to section the tendo Achilles and the tibialis posticus.
Toward the last of 1915 a surgeon under the impression that the disease was organic cut the tendo Achillis but the soldier could not walk any better.
A sense of constriction in the muscles of the calves is experienced at the same time, arising from a veritable contraction, which causes their apparent enlargement and hardening, with tension of the tendo achillis.
This is obtained by firmly flexing the foot and then tapping sharply upon the tendo Achillis.
If the calf muscles are not completely paralysed and the tendo Achillis is merely stretched, this tendon may be shortened by splitting it longitudinally and making the ends overlap, or its insertion may be displaced downwards.
The treatment consists in reinforcing the paralysed tibial muscles by attaching the peronei, or a strip of the tendo Achillis, to the scaphoid, or in bringing about an ankylosis of the joints above and in front of the talus.
Ring pads are applied to take pressure off the condyles, the head of the fibula, the malleoli, and the prominence of the heel, and a large supporting pad is placed behind the tendo calcaneus.
If the equinus element resists correction, the tendo Achillis should be lengthened.
Treatment is conducted on the same lines as in teno-synovitis of the tendo Achillis.
The tuberosity of the calcaneus, into which the tendo Achillis is inserted, is sometimes separated by forcible contraction of the calf muscles, or from a fall on the ball of the foot.
If tendon transplantation is indicated, the tendon of the tibialis anterior is attached to the cuboid, and a strip of the tendo Achillis to the dorsal aspect of the tarsus.
This form is nearly always due to poliomyelitis, but it may also result from accidental division of the tendo Achillis.
The foot appears lengthened, the heel is less prominent than normal, and the hollows on each side of the tendo Achillis are obliterated.
The soft parts to be divided are thetendo Achillis, the medial and posterior ligaments of the ankle, the plantar fascia, the calcaneo-navicular ligaments, and the tibialis posterior tendon.
Jones divides the tendo Achillis and the flexors of the toes subcutaneously, and maintains the dorsiflexion by excising an oval flap of skin from the front of the ankle.
This structure serves to bind the tibial tarsal (calcis) bone to the metatarsus; traction exerted upon its summit by the tendo Achillis is great when animals run, jump or rear and also at heavy pulling.
Thoroughpin is characterized by a distended condition of the tarsal sheath which is manifested by protrusions anterior to the tendo Achillis.
Spontaneous recoveries occur and such cases are reported by Bouley who is quoted by Cadiot as having observed division of the tendo Achillis due to a sword wound wherein at the end of four months recovery was complete.
Cases are recorded by Uhlrich in which rupture has followed degenerative changes affecting the tendo Achillis.
With division of the tendo Achillis or of the musculature of the gastroenemii and the superficial flexor (perforatus), there remains nothing to inhibit tarsal flexion except the deep flexor tendon (perforans) and this does not support the leg.
Not infrequently, the result of a trauma, division of the tendo Achillis occurs.
An incision midway between the internal malleolus and the tendo Achillis, parallel with both, will expose the very deep and strong fascia in which the tendons lie.
This process is continued till the tuberosity of the os calcis is fairly turned, and the tendo Achillis nearly reached.
Professor Pancoast[168] divides the inferior portion of the soleus muscle instead of the tendo Achillis.
In it the flap is made as in Syme's, then anterior bones removed as in Chopart's, and os calcis grasped by lion forceps and twisted off, its attachment and the insertion of tendo Achillis being cautiously avoided.
Next in frequency and importance to that of the tendo Achillis, division of this tendon is much more difficult to perform.
There are very few cases of true club-foot which can be successfully treated without division of the tendo Achillis.
The course of the bullet was from behind forward through the insertion of the tendo Achillis and its lodgment along the outer border of the os calcis.
The calf muscles are frequently painful and excessively tender and somewhat swollen or infiltrated; the hamstring tendons or the tendo Achilles may be sore and slightly swollen and the site of slight subcutaneous hemorrhages.
The swelling may be found in the popliteal space or at the site of the tendo Achilles, and result in lameness and contracture of the neighboring joint.
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