Serial manipulation and casting followed by limited surgery, consisting of percutaneous tenotomy of the Achilles tendon and a small medial incision to either palpate the talonavicular joint or perform capsulotomies of the talonavicular joint and the anterior aspect of the subtalar joint to ensure accurate reduction and pin fixation, result in excellent short-term correction of the deformity while preserving subtalar and ankle motion in patients with rigid congenital vertical talus associated with neuromuscular and/or genetic syndromes.

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PURPOSE-The use of joint leveling procedures to treat Kienbock's disease has been limited by the degree of disease advancement. This study was designed to compare clinical and radiographic outcomes of wrists with more advanced Kienbock's disease (stage IIIB) to wrists with less advanced disease (stage II/IIIA) following radius shortening osteotomy. CONCLUSIONS-In this limited series, clinical outcomes of radius shortening using validated, patient-based assessment instruments and objective measures failed to demonstrate predicted "clinically relevant" differences between stage II/IIIA and IIIB Kienbock's. Provided the high percentage successful clinical outcomes in this case series of 14 stage IIIB wrists, we believe that static carpal malalignment does not preclude radius shortening osteotomy. METHODS-This Level of Evidence-IV; retrospective case series