List of disorders of foot and ankle
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Disorders of the skin

  • Athlete's foot
    Athlete's foot
    Athlete's foot is a fungal infection of the skin that causes scaling, flaking, and itch of affected areas. It is caused by fungi in the genus Trichophyton and is typically transmitted in moist areas where people walk barefoot, such as showers or bathhouses...

  • Callus and Corns of the Skin
  • Onychocryptosis
    Ingrown nail
    Onychocryptosis , also known as an ingrown toenail, or unguis incarnatus is a common form of nail disease. It is an often painful condition in which the nail grows so that it cuts into one or both sides of the paronychium or nail bed...

     (Ingrown Toenail)
  • Keratosis palmaris et plantaris
    Keratosis
    Keratosis is a growth of keratin on the skin. More specifically, it can refer to:* actinic keratosis * hydrocarbon keratosis* keratosis pilaris , also known as * seborrheic keratosis-See also:...


Disorders of the joints

  • Hallux valgus (bunion)
  • Hallux varus
    Hallux varus
    Hallux varus is a deformity of the great toe joint where the hallux is deviated medially away from the first metatarsal bone. The hallux usually moves in the transverse plane....

  • Diabetic Arthropathy
    Arthropathy
    -Scope:Arthritis is a form of arthropathy that involves inflammation of one or more joints, while the term arthropathy may be used regardless of whether there is inflammation or not.Spondylarthropathy is any form of arthropathy of the vertebral column....

     (Charcot Foot
    Neuropathic joint disease
    Neuropathic arthropathy , also known as Charcot joint , refers to progressive degeneration of a weight bearing joint, a process marked by bony destruction, bone resorption, and eventual deformity...

    )
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
    Rheumatoid arthritis
    Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks synovial joints. The process produces an inflammatory response of the synovium secondary to hyperplasia of synovial cells, excess synovial fluid, and the development...

  • Osteoarthritis
    Osteoarthritis
    Osteoarthritis also known as degenerative arthritis or degenerative joint disease, is a group of mechanical abnormalities involving degradation of joints, including articular cartilage and subchondral bone. Symptoms may include joint pain, tenderness, stiffness, locking, and sometimes an effusion...


Disorders of the bones

  • Fracture
  • Jones Fracture
    Jones fracture
    A Jones fracture is a fracture of the diaphysis of the fifth metatarsal of the foot. The fifth metatarsal is at the base of the small toe. The proximal end, where the Jones fracture occurs, is in the midportion of the foot. Patients who sustain a Jones fracture have pain over this area, swelling,...

  • Dupuytren fracture or Pott's fracture
    Pott's fracture
    Pott's fracture, , also known as Pott’s syndrome I and Dupuytren fracture, is an archaic term loosely applied to a variety of bimalleolar ankle fractures. The injury is caused by a combined abduction external rotation from an eversion force...

  • Osteomyelitis
    Osteomyelitis
    Osteomyelitis simply means an infection of the bone or bone marrow...


Disorders of the nerves

  • Tarsal tunnel syndrome
    Tarsal tunnel syndrome
    Tarsal tunnel syndrome , also known as posterior tibial neuralgia, is compression neuropathy and a painful foot condition in which the tibial nerve is impinged and compressed as it travels through the tarsal tunnel. TTS is a compression syndrome of the tibial nerve within the tarsal tunnel...

  • Neuroma
    Neuroma
    A neuroma is a growth or tumor of nerve tissue. Just as the Latin word for swelling is now restricted to neoplasias, the equivalent Greek suffix -oma has shared in that fate. Thus, the typical modern usage of neuroma is for nerve tumors...

  • Metatarsalgia
    Metatarsalgia
    Metatarsalgia is a general term used to refer to any painful foot condition affecting the metatarsal region of the foot. This is a common problem that can affect the joints and bones of the metatarsals. Metatarsalgia is most often localized to the first metatarsal head...

  • Nerve entrapment

Specific manifestations of systemic disease

  • Diabetic foot
    Diabetic foot
    Diabetic foot ulcer is one of the major complications of diabetes mellitus, and probably the major component of the diabetic foot. It occurs in 15% of all patients with diabetes and precedes 84% of all lower leg amputations...

  • Rheumatoid foot
    Rheumatoid arthritis
    Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks synovial joints. The process produces an inflammatory response of the synovium secondary to hyperplasia of synovial cells, excess synovial fluid, and the development...

  • Neuropathy
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