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 ...

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 ...

Lateral malleolus fracture Firstly, the surgeon will realign the bone fragments, returning them to their original position. The surgeon will then attach screws and metals plates to the outer ...

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 ...

Stassi, a sophomore at Olentangy Berlin who has competed in three U.S. junior championships and one world junior championship, fractured the medial malleolus bone in her right ankle Dec. 19 while ...

The surgery for a trimalleolar ankle fracture is a combination of the three surgeries that are done when each bone breaks individually. The three procedures are: For the lateral malleolus fracture.