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This issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Thomas P. San Giovanni, will discuss Advances in Treatment of Athletic Injury. This issue is one of four selected each year by long-time series Consulting Editor, Dr. Mark Myerson. Topics in this issue will include: Epidemiology of Sport-Specific Foot and Ankle Injuries; In-Season Management of Acute or Subacute Sports Foot and Ankle Injuries; Imaging Techniques for Assessment of Dynamically Unstable Sports Related Foot and Ankle Injuries; Assessment and Treatment of Sports Injuries to the First Metatarsophalangeal Joint; Sports-related Lisfranc Injuries and Recognition of Lisfranc Variants; Proximal Fifth Metatarsal Fractures in Athletes - Management of Acute and Chronic Conditions; Arthroscopic Surgical Technique for Lateral Ankle Ligament Instability; Modern Open and Minimally Invasive Stabilization of Chronic Lateral Ankle Instability; Osteochondral Lesions of the Talus: Current and Future Treatment Strategies; Recognition of Failure Modes of Lateral Ankle Ligament Reconstruction; and Anterior and Posterior Ankle Impingement Syndromes, among others.