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Almost all patients with recurrent dislocation due to ankle joint strain complain of lateral instability of it's joint. We are reportiong our experience with unusual recurrent dislocation in one of our patients who has had no past hitory as trauma.
This 41-year-old housewife first noticed her left ankle joint instability during her second pregnancy in 16 years ago. Recently shy has felt abnomal morbility of her left ankle joint at the time of going up and down stairs particularly. She was first seen in our orthopedic clinic in January, 1970.
Physical examination revealed abnormal forward mobility of her left ankle joint, Also X-ray films showed slight tilting of the talus at the inversion strain and forward sliding of it at the plantar flexion.
Operative procedure was performed under suspected diagnosis of anterior talofibular ligament injury and Watson-Jones method was applied to repair the relaxed ligament. She has had experienced no recurrence of abnormal morbility in her left ankle joint at 3 months postoperatively.
