http://www.healio.com/orthopedics/foot-ankle/news/print/orthopedics-today/%7B05074431-69ff-4ffc-a3cf-b663c95d724d%7D/metatarsal-head-resurfacing-preserves-motion-in-patients-with-end-stage-hallux-rigidus

Metatarsal head resurfacing preserves motion in patients with end-stage hallux rigidus

• Orthopedics Today, July 2014
  Carl T. Hasselman, MD

SURGICAL TECHNIQUES
	Complete soft tissue release Metatarsal head resurfacing preserves motion in patients with end-stage hallux rigidus When performing arthroplasty for later stages of hallux rigidus (stages 2 and 3), Carl T. Hasselman, MD, advises surgeons to think of the joint as an upside down knee replacement but you walk on the “patella joint.” Read more