What is the return to sports rate for ankle and foot fusions?
Decision to return to sports dependant on many elements
1. Arthrodesis may place excessive burden on surrounding joints ➔ lead to pain and early arthritis
2. Arthrodesis leads to longer rigid arm ➔ result in stress fractures above or below the site
3. Arthrodesis iteself placed under excessive stress ➔ pseudoarthrosis and failure
4. Some sports precluded simply because the arthrodesis renders individual incapable of performing the fundamental motion of the sports e.g. jumping in ankle fusion.