

Pertinent Insights On Evaluating And Treating Sesamoiditis
Sesamoiditis is a broad term often used to describe pain in the sesamoids in the presence of negative radiographs.1 Boike and colleagues defined sesamoiditis as any painful inflammatory condition of the sesamoid bones caused by repetitive stress but lacking radiographic changes.2
Sesamoid pain can result from a number of pathologies, such as chondromalacia, stress fractures, acute fractures, avascular necrosis, arthritis and bursitis.1-3 These injuries result most often fro