[Personal experience with the Grice operation in patients with cerebral palsy]

The authors give an account of Grice's operation, i.e. extraarticular, talocalcaneal arthrodesis as one of the basic operations in infantile cerebral palsy in children and adolescents which can be used in the spastic as well as paretic form of the disease. It is valuable as after reposition it stabilizes the position of tarsal bone sub talo. The 65 operations by Grice's method in infantile cerebral palsy with very favourable results (failure or partial failure in five operations, i.e. 9.2%) and the authors' experience with this operations also in other neurogenic disorders indicates that the operation is justified in children and adolescents. It may be performed also in adults. According to the authors' experience this operation does not lead during subsequent development to deformities of the sole and does not merely substitute the well known triple arthrodesis sub talo. Its application is much wider. It can be combined with other surgical procedures on soft parts as well as bones, in particular with Young's operation and with temporary fixation of tarsal bones with Kirschner wires after reposition.