Forma Medical Announces Strategic Focus on OptimalMTP™, Issuance of Key Methods Patent, and Appointment of Aaron Smith to Board of Directors

Forma Medical Inc. announced a sharpened strategic focus on OptimalMTP™, a procedural innovation enabling minimally invasive plating of first metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint fusion, along with the ...
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First metatarsophalangeal joint arthrodesis reduces first tarsometatarsal joint alignment

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Isolated first metatarsophalangeal joint arthrodesis may reduce radiographic alignment and subluxation of the ...
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Joint prep, compression, rigid fixation among keys to hallux MTP joint arthrodesis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hallux metatarsophalangeal joint arthrodesis is an established surgical treatment for various pathologies, ...
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Ortho Dx: Which surgery is best for MTP joint arthritis?

The patient has an arthritic metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint. Anteroposterior and lateral radiographs show loss of joint space at the MTP joint and large dorsal osteophytes. Arthritis at the MTP joint ...
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FDA Backs Cartiva Implant for Osteoarthritis in the MTP Joint

The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee voted yesterday to recommend premarket approval of the Cartiva ...
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Psoriatic Arthritis Foot Pain Linked to Inflammation, Structure

Foot pain in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) was predicted by synovitis, erosion, subluxation of the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joints, obesity, and female sex but unlike foot pain in rheumatoid arthritis, ...