CAPÍTULO: minimal invasive management of hallux rigidus

Capítulo 5, en "Minimally Invasive Foot Surgery of the Foot and Ankle". Editorial Springer

Introducción: M. De Prado, Pedro Luis Ripoll and Pau Golanó

Hallux rigidus is the clinical expression of osteoarthritis of the metatarsophalangeal joint of the hallux. Hallux rigidus presents with limited joint mobility, especially in extension, and pain, with osteophytes on the dorsal aspect of the head of the first metatarsal and of the base of the proximal phalanx of the hallux. it has a prevalence of 2% of the population between 30 and 60 years of age.

Davies-Colley, in 1887, first described the condition, calloing it hallux flexus, and a few months later, Cotterill, referred to it as halluz rigidus, a term that seems more accurate and which now widespread.