The treatment of calcaneal fractures continues to be controversial. These fractures present many challenges to the treating surgeon, including bony comminution, sometimes severe soft tissue envelope ...

PHOENIX — Percutaneous reduction and internal fixation may provide good functional and clinical results with a low risk of complications for patients with intra-articular calcaneal fractures. In a ...

Calcaneus fractures are usually caused by severe injuries like falls or car crashes. Surgery for calcaneus fractures often ...

Operative procedures are shown in Table 2. Average time from injury to arthrodesis was 22 months (range, 6 months to 5 years). Repeated triple arthrodesis was done in one patient who had nonunion ...

An important patient care skill is the ability to rapidly immobilize a suspected lower extremity fracture. Many lower extremity fractures are particularly emergent, both due to the forces involved in ...