A clinical study of the Batchelor subtalar arthrodesis

Results of subtalar arthrodesis performed by the Batchelor method were reviewed in thirty-four feet of twenty-two patients who had an average follow-up of thirty-nine months. The pseudarthrosis rate was 41 per cent, which is considerably higher than that reported for the Grice extra-articular arthrodesis. Three feet had a recurrence of deformity later than one year postoperatively. Two factors seemed related to the high incidence of pseudarthrosis: the parallelism of the axis of the graft to the axis of the subtalar joint and the cortical nature of the graft.