Tendon Disorders
A 24-year-old professional ballet dancer presents with 6 months of posteromedial ankle pain and a clicking sensation in her great toe. Symptoms worsen with relevé (rising on toes) and demi-pointe positions. On examination, there is tenderness behind the medial malleolus and triggering of the hallux with passive flexion and extension. Regarding flexor hallucis longus (FHL) tendinitis:
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FHL tendinitis is also called "dancer's tendinitis" due to its prevalence in ballet dancers; the FHL...
The FHL is the most commonly injured ankle tendon in ballet dancers; repetitive plantarflexion in en...
The FHL runs lateral to the Achilles tendon at the posterior ankle and passes superficial to the fle...
The pseudohalux (checkrein deformity) is a fixed flexion contracture of the interphalangeal joint of...
Posterior ankle impingement syndrome frequently coexists with FHL tendinitis as both involve the pos...
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