An ankle joint distractor and method for spreading an ankle joint in preparation for arthroscopic surgery. The distractor comprises a pair of external fixation pins for transfixing bones adjacent the ankle joint so as to pass parallel to one another and directly through the bones from the medial side to the lateral side, and a pair of jack screws for attachment to the parallelly transfixed pins, the jackscrews being adapted to force the pins apart or together so as to distract or to compress the ankle joint while the pins are maintained in a generally parallel spaced apart relationship.
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