A STUDY OF POST TRAUMATIC ARTHRITIS IN PATIENTS WITH CALCANEAL FRACTURES IN RELATION TO BOHLER’S ANGLE

Abstract

INTRODUCTION:Calcaneal fractures account 3% of all fractures and for 65% of tarsal injuries. Most of them are Intra articular. To assess the relation between change in bohler's angle and severity of post traumatic arthritis (subtalar orAIM: calcaneo cuboid) To correlate between change in Bohler's angle initially and at the time of follow up and post traumatic arthritisOBJECTIVES : if developed and grading the severity of arthritis by KGLS system The study was conducted in GandhiMATERIALS AND METHODS: hospital from 2019 to 2021. All the patients with closed displaced and undisplaced Calcaneal fractures were evaluated with x-ray of calcaneum , AP, lateral views and few of them with CT scans. Bohler's angle was measured by using stratovanprosurgical 3d software as to minimise errors. RESULTS: In majority of the cases (63.33%), mechanism of injury was due to fall from height. 63.33% were manages surgically and 36.66% were manages conservatively. Patients with surgery had better outcome than that of those with conservative management. CONCLUSION:Bohler's angle is an important indicator in the outcome of calcaneal fractures managed conservatively and by surgical methods. Surgical correction was better than conservative treatment.