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For personeal sublaxtion surgical options? is there a way without being casted?
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Several different op: Surgery can deepen the grove the peronealeal tendons run in a nd tight the retinaculum that holds them in. Grove deepened by gouging out a deeper tract in the fibula or adding a bone block the latter requires casting the former splinting nd splinting for a short period filled by bracing in select, reliable patients with restricted movement.
Answered 12/2/2014
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