Contact in elite football can result in severe injury such as traumatic fracture. Limited information exists regarding the rehabilitation and return to sport (RTS) of these injuries especially in ...

Lateral to (on the outer side of) the tibia is the fibula, a smaller long bone that provides stability and assists with rotation of the ankle. The tibia is a long bone, which means it is a limb bone ...

The tibia is in your lower leg between your knee and your ankle. While the slender fibula bone is on the outside, or lateral side, of your lower leg, the tibia is oriented toward the middle (or ...

The fibula is the slender long bone that is attached next to and a little below the tibia (shinbone). It bears very little body weight. The fibula provides lateral stability for the lower leg and acts ...

Fibula The fibula is the smaller, thinner bone of the lower leg. It is on the lateral side of either leg, meaning it is away from the middle of the body on each side.

A posterior malleolus fracture means that there has been a break on the lower back side of the tibia or shin bone. This type of injury is rare in isolation, so it’s likely that if you have a ...

The fibula, or calf bone, is a small bone located on the outside of the leg. A fibula fracture describes a break in this bone. Treatment can vary, but often involves aligning the bones and a cast.

Hip-knee-ankle axis, mechanical lateral distal femoral angle, medial proximal tibial angle, joint line convergence angle, and length of the entire lower limb and tibia were measured. The ...

A bimalleolar ankle fracture involves both knobs in the ankle, which include the fibula (lateral malleolus) and tibia (medial malleolus). Based on a 2022 review, these almost always require ...

According to consultation with orthopedic surgical team who are exclusively expert in knee surgery, tibiofemoral joint stress distribution might have been affected by fibula removal. A ...

Computed tomography (CT) images of the ankle showed an avulsion fracture of the anterior tibia by the anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament (AITFL) with a nondisplaced bony fragment (Figure 2).

A 42-year-old woman was involved in a motorcycle crash and sustained a type II open, right distal-third tibia and fibula fractures (Figure 1).The patient was appropriately resuscitated, given IV ...