Balancing exercises strengthen your proprioception, crucial for stability in the ankle joint. Begin by standing on one leg, ...
Heel walks are great for strengthening the muscles that support your ankle. To do them, simply raise your toes off the ground ...
A lateral malleolus (muh-LEE-uh-lus) fracture is a type of broken ankle that happens when part of the fibula just above the ankle joint fractures. The bony knobs on the inside and outside of the ankle ...
35.6% of the patients felt a recurrent snapping phenomenon at the medial ankle. Physical examination exhibited a cord-like structure over the medial malleolus in 58.6%, and a posterior tibial tendon ...
A case of intraepiphyseal injury (type 7) to the lateral malleolus in a 11 year old child is described. This rare injury cannot be classified by commonly used Salter Harris classification for ...
(n.) A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external. (n.)" A layer, " a shoot partly ...
The midpoint malleolus is more commonly involved than the lateral malleolus. Less common sites are the anterior tibial area, back of the foot, and Achilles tendon. Old studies of nutritional ...