Hindfoot Disorders
A 35-year-old female runner presents with posterior heel pain that worsens with running and when wearing high-heeled shoes. She has a prominent bump on the back of her heel with tenderness on medial and lateral squeezing of the Achilles tendon insertion. Lateral radiograph shows a prominent posterosuperior calcaneal tuberosity. Regarding retrocalcaneal bursitis and Haglund deformity:
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The retrocalcaneal bursa is located between the Achilles tendon and the posterosuperior calcaneal tu...
Haglund deformity refers to an enlarged posterosuperior calcaneal tuberosity that causes impingement...
Haglund deformity affects the Achilles tendon midsubstance rather than the insertion; it is never as...
Radiographic assessment uses the Fowler-Philip angle (angle between posterior calcaneal surface and ...
The Haglund triad (also called Haglund syndrome) consists of retrocalcaneal bursitis, Achilles tendi...
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