A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that casting by itself was just as successful as ...

The wrist is then placed in a cast until healing, at which time the pins are removed and therapy begun. External fixation is a time-honored technique that involves using an external frame holding pins ...

David L. Helfet and Dr. Dean G. Lorich addressed the pelvic fracture and the distal tibia fracture. A spanning external fixator was placed for initial fixation with concurrent fibula ORIF including ...

Methods: In this study, 168 patients with high-energy intra-articular distal radius fractures with either volar fragments, dorsal fragments, or radial styloid fragments, who were treated with one of ...

A medical research team at Saarland University, led by Professor Bergita Ganse, has discovered a new approach to monitoring ...

COMPRESSION tests and tension tests on cast iron have been carried out in an environment of hydrostatic pressure 1. The results for the fracture stresses are shown in Fig. 1.

External fixation provides a safe approach to managing fractures in selected cases when other means of fixation are inadequate.

If you break a bone, the treatment you receive will depend on its location and severity. Learn about surgery, what to expect from recovery and using casts and crutches.

Sometimes, they're the only fixation used to fix small bones ... have moved enough to create a gap (displaced fracture). Do you need a cast after ORIF surgery? It depends on the bone that's ...

The Segond fracture (SF) is considered pathognomonic of an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear. However, the anatomy of the soft-tissue attachments responsible for the avulsion of SFs has been a ...