Subtalar Arthroscopy and a Technical Note on Arthroscopic Interosseous Talocalcaneal Ligament Reconstruction

The history of arthroscopy can be traced back to 1912 when the Danish physician Severin Nordentoft reported on arthroscopies of the knee joint at the Proceedings of the 4lst Congress of the German Society of Surgeons at Berlin [1]. Till seventy three years later was the first article on subtalar arthroscopy published in which Parisien did a cadaver study and introduced the arthroscopic approaches in detail[2]. Frey C compared three portals of subtalar arthroscopy on visualization area and safety in an article published in 1994[3]. Lundeen described ankle and subtalar joint fusion under arthroscopy in the same year[4]. Afterwards, as the advance of surgical technique many diseases can be treated under subtalar arthroscopy. However, to observe all structures in subtalar joint is still not easy and more efforts should be made to improve the subtalar arthroscopy technique.