A 23 year old male patient arrived at our emergency department after an acute ankle sprain with pain and swelling of the ankle. Injury mechanism was a supination and inversion ankle sprain when ...

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The Taylor Spatial Frame allows surgeons to change reductions through struts and offers new hope for the treatment of pilon fractures. Open techniques still provide the gold standard in treatment for ...

The ankle bones include the calcaneus, cuboid, external cuneiform, internal cuneiform, middle cuneiform, navicular, and talus. The talus sits at the top, under the fibula and tibia (the bones of the ...

A prospective randomised study was performed in order to compare plaster cast with Pliton-80 cast brace with a mobile plastic shoe insert in the treatment of ruptured fibular ankle ligaments. The two ...

Background: Acute rupture of the fibular ligament complex is one of the commonest injuries in sports. Prospective randomized trials in the 1980s led to a paradigm shift from primary surgical repair to ...

The lower leg lies between the knee and ankle and works with the upper leg and foot to help perform key functions. In the leg are a number of bones, muscles, tendons, nerves and blood vessels. These ...