Hallux valgus and hallux rigidus; a critical survey of operative results.

THE METHOD OF STUDY The examination of the cases involved the extraction from the patient and from the clinical notes of details of the pre-operative condition, operative methods, post-operative treatment and course, and eventual result. On account of defects both in patients’ memories and clinical notes, the assessment of the first three factors was not as accurate as could have been wished, and accordingly a separate study of a current series of cases was later made with the object of comparing preand post-operative states and assessing the value of different methods of post-operative treatment.