A tibial plateau fracture refers to a break or crack in the top of the shin bone at the knee. It involves the cartilage surface of the knee joint. This joint helps support your body weight ...

While there was widespread relief that the injury wasn’t more serious, several questions remained: What is a tibial plateau fracture in the first place? How serious is that type of injury ...

Fractures of the tibial plateau are severe injuries, accounting for 5–8% of all fractures of the lower leg. The most frequent reasons for these injuries are falls, traffic accidents and sports ...

Houston Texans superstar J.J. Watt suffered a tibial plateau fracture on Sunday night, but what the heck is that? It was a bad night for the Houston Texans. J.J. Watt left the game early with what ...

fast-paced running doesn’t put any more pressure on the tibia (shin bone)—a common site of stress fractures—than easy running. In the study, 43 recreational runners—29 women and 14 men ...

Conclusions: On the basis of lower in vivo strains and strain rates, treadmill runners are at lower risk of developing tibial stress fractures, but less likely to achieve tibial bone strengthening, ...

Background This study described a novel, minimally invasive reconstruction technique of lateral tibial plateau fractures using a three-screw jail technique and compared it to a conventional two ...