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Sports Trauma: Ankle and Foot

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The foot and ankle work together to provide support and mobility. All types of athletes are at risk of sustaining foot or ankle injuries or developing an ongoing condition. Injuries to the foot or ankle while being active are common. Sports medicine specialists are experiencing new diagnostic and treatment challenges. To meet those challenges, orthopedic surgeons are responding with innovative approaches to surgery and other management techniques. In the surgical realm, arthroscopy is finding increased utilization, often with excellent results, though, in some procedures, with certain attendant risks.

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hospital de Braga, Braga, Portugal

    Bruno Silva Pereira

  2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Bruno Silva Pereira

  3. Clínica do Dragão, Espregueira-Mendes Sports Center, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Porto, Portugal

    Bruno Silva Pereira & C. Niek van Dijk

  4. Department Orthopedic Surgery, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    C. Niek van Dijk

  5. FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence Ripoll De Prado & Van Dijk Sport Clinic, Madrid, Spain

    C. Niek van Dijk

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  1. Orthopedics and Traumatology, State University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Campinas / Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Sérgio Rocha Piedade

  2. Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, University of Munich (TUM), München, Bayern, Germany

    Andreas B. Imhoff

  3. Ascot Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

    Mark Clatworthy

  4. Department of Orthopedics & Traumatology, Federal University of São Paulo, Vila Clementino - São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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Pereira, B.S., van Dijk, C.N. (2019). Sports Trauma: Ankle and Foot. In: Rocha Piedade, S., Imhoff, A., Clatworthy, M., Cohen, M., Espregueira-Mendes, J. (eds) The Sports Medicine Physician. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10433-7_28

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