Eponymous terms of the foot and ankle

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Just thinking about the list of epoymous anatomical terms/pathology related to the foot and ankle today, considering I take the moniker of one.

Can you think of more - and more importantly do you know about their historical namesakes?

Any others you can think of?

LL

 

Rothbarts foot :dizzy::bash::bang::wacko:

 

It's not technically foot/ankle but it can be caused by foot/ankle injury...

Maisonneuve fracture... :drinks

 

Hicks Test

 

Ahhh yes. And of course; Mulder's click and Mulder's sign for neuroma, and Lachman's test for plantar plate instability.

Nice.

LL

 

Kirby Skive ... but to Kevin's credit he never named it after himself (like one of the ones mentioned above) and has always called it the medial skive

 

Craig

Now we're getting moving into interventions...of which there would be another hundred or more just in surgical procedures, let alone the Fettig, Feehrey, Denton, Blake and other orthotic modifications.

Any other anatomical/pathology one's?

LL

 

What about Haglund's Deformity and Helbing's Sign?

 

charcot foot
durlacher corn

 

Payne's Law:

 

Just remembered: Kager's Triangle

Thanks to all that have contributed so far.

LL

 

Lister's corn
Jones fracture

 

Great Post...........
How about Tailor's Bunion? Called a Tailors bunion because it was thought that it came about because tailors (a long time ago) sat crosslegged causing the deformity.
Cheers

 

Severs Iselin's Freiberg's Jone's Fx

 

Hostler's nails (onychogryphosis was common in Hostler's). Who is old enough to remember what a Hostler was?

 

Foot Payne ?

 

Hutchinsons sign.

 

Hello All

How about

Lister's Corn &
Sullivan's sign

How medicine has changed! Now one would never see a Physician utilize his
or her name as a descriptive term for a discovery or innovation.

Hell we cannot even get fairly paid for what we perform and execute day in and day out.

Anyway fun post. Let's me brush up on some of the terms I have forgotten.

 

Sorry about the angry face...Oops. I meant a happy face. Hey I guess that's Freudian.

 

Ha ha!

 

Mortons Foot
Bet heel ( North-east only)
Helbings sign

 

Hostler

My recollection and experience was it a term often linked to a nail that was gryphotic due to a horse stepping on the foot. Still find it amongst the horsey people or grooms and the all too rare blacksmith. So horsey related activity me things: Hostler's toe

Ian

 

Hi Ian,

Slightly (ish) off thread.

Lost both my hallux nails to a 17 hand horse when I worked as a groom.

Learned some new words that day too

PS. All the other grooms (6 in total, had similar injuries).

How I've suffered..........

 

Babinsky´s sign?

 

Hi Twirls

"Lost both my hallux nails to a 17 hand horse ..."

So that's what you yorkshire girls call your men then?

Cheers
Ian

 

Charcot foot

 

Um er!

Am not really a Yorkshire lass. I moved here 16 years ago.

Kept my passport though so I think I am safe.

Lost 'em in Hawley Equitation Centre {Circa 1983}.

 

Pott's Fx
Ainhum's d
Achilles tendon
Bohler's triangel
Duchenn's md
Reiter's syndrome
Sever's d
Kohler's d
Kaposi's sarcoma

Man........there's a million of these!!!!!!!

 

Trench Foot.