(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, Detroit Lions star Aidan Hutchinson is recovering after successful surgery to repair his fractured tibia and fibula. The team ...

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 ...

A broken leg can significantly impact your ability to perform daily tasks—most inconveniently, walking. Rehab is often performed through physical therapy for a broken tibia and fibula to restore range ...

A Maisonneuve fracture refers to a break or fracture in the fibula close to the knee, with a co-occurring sprain in the ankle. The impact of a sprained ankle may travel up the leg and cause the fibula ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tibial shaft fractures have an incidence of 16.9 per 100,000 people per year. Men aged 10 to 20 years tend to ...

Fractures of the tibial plateau are severe injuries, accounting for 5–8% of all fractures of the lower leg. The most frequent reasons for these injuries are falls, traffic accidents and sports trauma.

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 ...