It has been shown that the percentage of ankle fractures that undergo surgery could be substantially reduced, from more than 30% to 10% in the most common type of fracture. The key is a clear-cut ...

You probably know the medial malleolus as the bump that protrudes on the inner side of your ankle. It’s actually not a separate bone, but the end of your larger leg bone — the tibia, or shinbone. The ...

Results presented at the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Annual Meeting showed GLP-1 receptor agonists were not ...

Patients who used nicotine within 1 year before open reduction and internal fixation for ankle fracture had an increased risk for postoperative complications, according to results.Results also showed ...

A posterior malleolus fracture is a break on the lower back side of the shin bone. Ankle surgery is often required to fix a posterior malleolus fracture, and recovery may take months. There were ...

The lateral malleolus is the bone on the outside of the fibula. A lateral malleolus fracture is a type of ankle fracture that occurs when the fibula fractures just above the ankle joint. It is the ...

A sprain is a tear to one or more ligaments, while a fracture is a break in one of the bones in the ankle. It can be ...

Wearing a cast or ankle support for three weeks may be no worse than the usual six weeks for healing ankle fractures, suggest the findings of a randomized controlled trial. Wearing a cast or ankle ...

Ankle fractures represent one of the most frequent lower-limb injuries worldwide, with patterns ranging from isolated lateral malleolar breaks to complex trimalleolar disruptions involving syndesmotic ...

FDA has issued a safety alert in light of a “higher than expected risk” of a plastic component breaking in an ankle-replacement device made by Stryker. Fracture of the polyethylene-based part in the ...