Lateral ankle sprains are among the most common athletic injuries.Most of these sprains will positively respond to nonoperative treatment consisting of a brief period of immobilization in a tall ...

The anterior and posterior fixation, respectively, is placed equidistant relative to this line.Figure 6: Lateral ankle exposure demonstrating buttress plate fixation for a two-button syndesmotic ...

Lateral ankle sprains are one of the most common injuries seen in orthopedic practice. In fact, an estimated 9 million ankle sprains occur annually in the United States.

A syndesmosis ankle injury is what most athletes know as a “high ankle sprain.” It is a source of some confusion, especially in terms of how it relates to the length of time it takes an ...

Background Lateral ankle sprains are common in indoor sports. High shoe–surface friction is considered a risk factor for non-contact lateral ankle sprains. Spraino is a novel low-friction patch that ...

Dr. Schon, an orthopedic surgeon and co-inventor of the Zimmer Biomet Trabecular Metal Total Ankle Replacement, has released new data in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery demonstrating ...

In 1990, Wehner and Lorenz [3] reported a case of lateral ankle dislocation without fracture. However, the radiographs show this to be an anterolateral dislocation and not a pure lateral rotatory ...