Tib-fib fractures?

what is it? Pathology? Aetiology? signs & symptoms? Mechanism of injury?

Just get an Xray first.

It's breaking the two bones between the knee and ankle

Signs would be deformity, point tendernes, possible foot pointing the wrong way

MOI could be anything that would require a trauma alert to the hospital. Falls over 10 ft, MVA, blunt force trauma

A tib-fib fx is when you break the tibia and the fibula (the two bones located between the ankle and the knee). Etiology depends on what the person was doing when the injury occured--were they skateboarding, skiing, running, etc. Normally in the younger person (under 30), it takes a great deal of trauma for the bones to break. The older you get, normally the bones become more fragile. Sports are the most common cause of tib-fib fractures at the facility I work at. But we get them frequently in the winter also because people fall on the ice.
SIgns and symptoms are swelling, pain, sometimes you will be able to feel the break, sometimes the bones come thru the skin (compound fractures) more common in the tib fracture because the skin is close to the bone --not a lot of muscle between the shin and the skin-- bruising also happens, the foot can turn outward or inward, depends on the patient and what was going on when they broke it.

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