GENU VALGUM AND POST-TRAUMATIC IPOMETRY: CORRECTION WITH THE ILIZAROV METHOD

The correction of the skeletal deformities of the limbs represents one of the elective applications of the Ilizarov method; moreover in comparison with other techniques or surgical instruments, it is said to be an exclusive way when a correction on more levels and at the same time the restoration of the normal length to be obtained. More than as a simple external stabilizer of a correction already obtained surgically, the Ilizarov device acts, in fact, as a real “biological machine”, capable of modelling gradually the skeleton, subjected to the biological law of the distraction-compression and to the mechanical one of the hinges. Biomecha ...