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 ...

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 ...

To address these issues, we conducted a retrospective observational study among patients with operatively-managed fractures of the tibial shaft with the following key objectives: (1) to determine ...

This suggests that the jail technique may be a feasible alternative to conventional screw osteosynthesis in the minimally invasive reconstruction of lateral tibial plateau fractures. A potential ...

This is not an open-end fracture dislocation that gets infected. There’s no infection going on here. It’s a tibial shaft fracture, people do very well with rodding. This is not an Alex Smith ...

and tibial shaft in women of menopausal age. Hormonal changes during menopause cause accelerated bone weakening, increasing the risk of osteoporosis and fractures. Previous studies have shown that ...

Image: Adobe Stock O’Hara, Brian Shear, MD, and colleagues performed a cross-sectional study of 107 patients with tibial plateau (14%), distal femur (13%) or femoral shaft (13%) fractures who ...

and tibial shaft in women of menopausal age. Hormonal changes during menopause cause accelerated bone weakening, increasing the risk of osteoporosis and fractures. Previous studies have shown that ...