Updates in the Orthopedic Management of Foot Disorders: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, entitled “Updates in the Orthopedic Management of Foot Disorders: 2nd Edition”. For more details on our first edition, in which we published 27 papers, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/special_issues/orthopedic_foot_disorders.

Foot disorders continue to be a significant cause of hospitalization and one of the most frequent health reasons for orthopedic surgical interventions, affecting patients’ quality of life, modifying daily habits, and limiting their mobility and autonomy with major complications.

At the present, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) performed with minimal skin incisions, an intraoperative image intensifier, and without internal fixation represents one of the most innovative approaches in forefoot surgery. This percutaneous dynamic management combines different procedures, most arising from the traditional open ones, in a mixed surgical strategy, according to the complexity of the foot pathology to be treated.

Despite the advances in traditional and MIS, as well as the innovation and application of new technologies, foot disorders—particularly oncological and diabetic foot diseases—represent serious global health issues. Hence, there is a need to improve the current global knowledge of the orthopedic management of these challenging pathologies.

In this Special Issue, we would like to offer researchers a platform to share recent scientific findings in these contexts by inviting original clinical and research articles, meta-analyses, and systematic and narrative reviews focusing on the global aspects of the best potential orthopedic management of foot disorders.

Dr. Carlo Biz
Prof. Dr. Pietro Ruggieri
Guest Editors

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