Here are five key notes:
1. The grant was awarded to HSS to fund research on two different treatments for ankle arthritis.
2. The grant amounts to $20,000.
3. The research will focus on how function actually differs between patients with a fused ankle compared with a replaced ankle.
4. The investigators will recruit 20 patients — 10 who have undergone an ankle replacement and 10 who have undergone an ankle fusion.
5. The principal investigator of the study is Constantine Demetracopoulos, MD, attending orthopedic surgeon at HSS.
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