Haglund's deformity

beat cancer and was just done, and I don't blame him.

And, you know, the Haglund's injury that he had, you know, because the Haglunds, they can be annoying, right? Yeah, very annoying.

And so, like, yeah, when that was there, and Barry's like, dude, I don't want to do surgery, and, like, I think I've done enough, and quite frankly, spiritually, I'm not involved with this, so he didn't do it.

But, like, there's no doubt this is one of the more... offsetting sort of storylines that we have ever had.

So I take down both the retrococanial spur, the hagwins, you know, bump a little bit.

And then when I get to a point where I feel like I've resected enough bone is when I'll put the scope in there, 4-0 camera and shaver, and get all that bone slurry out of there.

So you don't completely detach the Achilles? You just do the Haglunds and the spur inside the tendon, but leave most of it intact?

I try to elevate, let's say, the central portion of it, just where I'm going to be passing a majority of the burr, and then reattach afterwards.

As far as kind of learning curve, when I was learning the technique and listening to some presentations and talking to some colleagues that had more experience than me, they were adamant that the arthroscopy portion or endoscopy portion, if you will, was critical.

And then when I first took my first MEFAS course, M-I-F-A-S, it was kind of awesome because it was kind of a mix of what I learned with the AE MEFAS group, but also integrating hardware where I believe it belongs.

you know, like, for instance, the Bunions, the Achilles tendon, I mean, the Haglunds, the Formigis, for example, you know.

And what I found really cool about that group, it was actually a mix of orthopedic front ankle fellows from the U.S., orthopedic surgeons from all over the world, especially Europeans, and U.S. podiatrists working and learning together.

And I took my first course at Philadelphia and I was like, oh my God, I can't believe this experience.

So, yeah, we enjoyed St. Moritz a lot.

He just talked about no injuries, but potentially I have one coming slowly towards me, and that's Haglund's heel on my left foot.

I feel it a little bit, but still I have it under control.

But maybe it's going to explode in a year or two or three or four years' time.