Ankle fracture

Ankle Fracture Surgery occurs when one or more of the bones that make up the ankle joint are broken and surgery is needed.

This is a case of an intraosseous calcaneal lipoma with central calcification, an incidental finding in a 40 year-old patient with ankle trauma. This appearance resembles the badge genera...

A fibula and tibial fracture is where both bones in the lower leg are broken. This commonly occurs just above the ankle....

Typically, it takes a broken ankle about six to eight weeks. Therefore, if you want to help your broken ankle heal, you might want to consider taking the following steps.

For patients with severe ankle arthritis, pain is just a part of daily life. While therapies such as medication, physical therapy, and bracing can alleviate discomfort for some patients, for others the pain is unrelenting. In these cases, it’s good to know that there are options to eliminate the pain. Here, we discuss the surgical […]

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Lauge-Hansen Classification of Ankle Fracture

As I wrote in a previous post with much more detail (see here), I fell off a mountain and broke my ankle in three places, then managed to break a bone in my 5th toe on the other foot. This meant that my right ankle was in a hard cast for 6 weeks and I…

This trial exhibit depicts a bimalleolar left ankle fracture, showing fractures of both the medial malleolus and lateral malleolus, shown in the anterior view with descriptive labels of the anatomy and fracture injuries of the left ankle.