ALLMedicine™ Bunion Center

Apr 3rd, 2022 - Fusion of the first metatarsophalangeal joint has been used by foot and ankle surgeons as a reproducible and useful means of treating end-stage arthritis of the great toe. However, the overall utility and successful outcomes of this procedure have...

Mar 31st, 2022 - Practice Essentials The term tailor's bunion (a synonym for bunionette) initially described an acquired lesion that caused chronic pain and swelling over the lateral aspect of the fifth metatarsal (MT) head. These lesions often were present on tai...

Mar 31st, 2022 - Practice Essentials The term tailor's bunion (a synonym for bunionette) initially described an acquired lesion that caused chronic pain and swelling over the lateral aspect of the fifth metatarsal (MT) head. These lesions often were present on tai...

Mar 30th, 2022 - Patients with hallux valgus often develop secondary hammertoe deformities of the lesser toes. Operative management of bunions with hammertoe can be more extensive; however, it is unclear whether this affects patient-reported outcomes. The aim of t...

Feb 11th, 2022 - The goals of this study were to compare the utilization and costs of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) versus hospital outpatient department (HOPD) for commonly performed outpatient orthopaedic surgical procedures. Commercially insured patients un...

Jul 15th, 2019 - Forefoot surgery includes bunion surgery and similar reconstructive bone cutting surgery and is very painful. Local anaesthetic nerve blocks have been used for many years to help alleviate pain following this surgery. The present study aims to com...

May 2nd, 2017 - The clinical study's primary objective is to compare the overall analgesic effect of the Provant Therapy System (test device) to an identical sham device (placebo) in subjects experiencing post-operative pain following first metatarsal bunion surg...

Jan 9th, 2015 - Patients undergoing bunionectomy (a surgical procedure to remove a bunion, an enlargement of the joint at the base of the big toe comprised of bone and soft tissue) often experience moderate to severe acute pain post-surgery. Normally such pain is...

Dec 3rd, 2012 - To determine whether a single dose of intravenous lornoxicam is superior to intravenous placebo for management of post-operative pain in patients who have surgical removal of a bunion on the lower extremity. One-fourth of patients in this study wi...

Jan 14th, 2008 - Diagnosis and Main Criteria for Inclusion: Healthy adult patients (18 to 76 years old), who scored PS-1 to PS-3 according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification System, requiring primary, unilateral, first meta...

Aug 10th, 2020 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the intravenous (IV) opioid oliceridine (Olinvyk) for the management of moderate to severe acute pain in adults who require an IV opioid and for whom alternative treatments fail. The FDA's Ane...

Apr 21st, 2016 - The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee voted yesterday to recommend premarket approval of the Cartiva Synthetic Cartilage Implant for use in patients wit...

Jan 1st, 2011 - Major Finding: Of adults younger than age 60 years who have bunions, 89% inherited the condition. Data Source: A genetic analysis and foot examination of 2,179 adults.

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ACUTE GOUT FLARES: PAINFUL, UNPREDICTABLE, HIGHLY LIKELY TO RECUR Acute flares of gouty arthritis are characterized by warmth, swelling, redness, and often severe pain. Pain frequently begins in the middle of the night or early morning.