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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Calf Implants for Symmetry Improvement After Achilles Tendon Rupture/Repair

Background: The calf muscles, also known as the gastrocnemius muscles, makes up the back part of the leg between the knee and ankle. It is a two-headed muscle with an inner (medial) and outer (lateral) head that extends downward to form a common Achilles tendon which attaches onto the back part of the heel bone. Read More…

OR Snapshots – Popliteal Skin Incisions for Calf Implants

There are numerous reasons patients seek calf augmentation. The desire for a more muscular calf appearance in an otherwise normal but thin calf and improvement in congenital or traumatic calf asymmetry are the most common patients that seek calf augmentation. The only assured method to achieve such calf size improvements is with the use of Read More…

Long-Term Results in Calf Implants

Calf augmentation is most commonly done with implants. There are a variety of reasons patients pursue augmenting the gastrocnemius muscle from congenitally thin legs, muscle atrophy due to disease or trauma and the desire for larger calfs that exercise and effort alone can not easily achieve. While injection fat grafting is another option for larger Read More…

Calf Implants – Effectiveness and Complication Rates

Body implants, primarily for muscle augmentation, can be done for a variety of anatomic sites including the chest, shoulders, arms, buttock and calfs. While some of these implanted areas are new, the calfs represent one of the original types of body implants. Calf implants have been around now for several decades using a variety of Read More…

Postoperative Instructions for Calf Implants

Implants for calf augmentation are surgically placed by incisions behind the knee. Very soft solid silicone implants are inserted under the fascia and on top of the gastrocnemius muscle. Either the inner half of the muscle (two implants) or both halfs of the paired gastrocnemius muscle (four implants) can be augmented. The following are the Read More…

Case Study: Calf Implants in Bilateral Clubfeet

Background: Calf augmentation using either a synthetic implant or fat injections is a well known surgical procedure to increase the prominence of the calf muscle. While many people think of the typical calf augmentation patient as a body builder or an athlete, aesthetic enhancement of normal calf muscles is only one reason to have the Read More…

Case Study: Implant Augmentation in Calf Asymmetry in Clubfoot

Background: Augmentation of deficient calf muscles is done for a variety of reasons. These include naturally small calfs, in bodybuilders who want their calfs to match the muscular look of the rest of their body and for congenital leg defects in which calf muscle development is small and ill-defined either on one leg or both Read More…

Calf Augmentation with Fat Injections

The shape of the lower third of the leg is highlighted by the appearance of the calfs. Whether they are big, small or somewhere in between, they are the dominant shape between the knee and ankle. The shape of the calfs is largely controlled by the size of the paired medial and lateral heads of Read More…

Fat Injections for Calf Augmentation

Augmentation of the calfs is most consistently done with a synthetic implant. Most patients who seek calf augmentation are typically body builder types, those born with very thin calfs who have been unable to build them up, or sosmeone with significant calf asymmetry. Despite an implant’s predictable improvement in the size and shape of Read More…