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 ...

You probably know the medial malleolus as the bump that protrudes on the inner side of your ankle. It’s actually not a separate bone, but the end of your larger leg bone — the tibia, or shinbone. The ...

Type of fracture may be difficult to reset and stabilize Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Posterior malleolus fractures are hard to fix because they often shatter into many pieces. If a ...

What Is the Lateral Malleolus? The knobby bones on the outside and the inside of the ankle are called malleoli. The fibula and the tibia have specific parts that compose the ankle: Lateral malleolus - ...

A trimalleolar ankle fracture is when your ankle breaks in three separate places. Only 7% of all ankle breaks are trimalleolar ankle fractures. They are rare, and they are among the worst kinds of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WAILEA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2021, Anna M. Miller, MD, FAAOS, FACS, FAOA, spoke ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with ankle fractures involving the posterior malleolus treated with a posterior approach had similar ...

A trimalleolar fracture occurs when the three malleoli bones that make up the ankle break at the same time. The malleoli are specific parts of the tibia and fibula that form the ankle. These consist ...