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 673,214 ankle fractures treated in emergency rooms in the ...

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 most common type of ankle fracture and may happen when the ...

Paris Saint-Germain and Nigeria star Rasheedat Ajibade faces at least three months on the sidelines after an MRI scan revealed she suffered a fracture to her right ankle.

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 medial malleolus is the largest of the three bone ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of nicotine alone and with cannabis yielded higher complication rates after open reduction and internal fixation for ankle fracture. Cannabis alone had no ...

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 treatment routine that benefits both patients and caregivers ...

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 Scandinavian Total Ankle Replacement (STAR Ankle ...