Patients with open tibia shaft fractures were much more likely to develop a nonunion than those with closed fractures. Ten percent (69/721) of patients with a closed fracture developed a nonunion ...

India: A recent randomized comparative pilot study, published online in Apollo Medicine has highlighted the potential of ...

Floating Knee Injury: A condition characterized by simultaneous fractures of the femur and tibia on the same side ... on the same side. Open Fracture: A fracture where the bone breaks through ...

Background Tibia shaft fractures (TSF ... nonunion had more comorbidities (30 vs. 21, pre-fracture) and were more likely to have their TSF open (87% vs. 70%) than those without nonunion.

Intraarticular distal tibial fractures usually involve complex fracture morphology and injury to the skin (open trauma). The skeleton of a mature male (age at death, 40–60 years) from the ...

The 22-year-old’s injury occurred one ... there are varying extents of tibia fractures ranging from transverse (the break being a straight horizontal line) to open (the bone sticking out through ...

Stress fractures cause pain actually within the involved bone, usually the tibia. At first, the pain is worst during activity and may be absent when not training. As the problem worsens ...

The term ‘stress fracture’ has deep roots in our vernacular. Its use in the literature has risen steadily since the 1970s/1980s and shows no sign of waning. But are we all talking about the same thing ...

However, there was pain on palpation of the proximal tibia. Radiography revealed a fracture of the proximal tibial diaphysis that was in the process of healing, with early periosteal reaction and ...

Broadly, it represents exertional lower leg pain centred on the posteromedial tibial border and being diffuse/linear (greater than 5 cm ... standing foot pronation and a history of orthotics use, MTSS ...