Background: Footballers constitute a unique group of patients with tibial shaft fractures. They tend to have excellent general health and well developed musculature in the leg, and their fractures are ...

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.

FRACTURES of the tibial spines, like all the less common fractures, receive so little attention in medical literature that even the specialists lose contact with the trends of treatment. It seems ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This case involves a 64-year-old diabetic woman who had a left total knee placed in 2001 by an outside surgeon.

We used data from the Thomson Reuters Marketscan® Research Databases. These retrospective claims databases are fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The ...

1 Mid-Western Regional Orthopaedic Hospital, Limerick, Republic of Ireland 2 Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick Objectives: To study the long term effect of tibial shaft fractures treated by ...

Tibia fracture can be common and is usually caused by an injury or repetitive strain on the bone. The recovery and healing time for tibia fracture differs and depends on the type and severity of the ...