A person may break a bone in their foot through an impact injury or overuse. Breaks can vary from small cracks or splinters to open fractures where a portion of bone breaks through the skin.

Your legs are a bundle of bones, muscles, and connective tissues that runs from your the top of your femur, at the hipbones, to your ankle and foot ... fracture. Also called an open fracture ...

One or more of these bones may be fractured after an injury to the foot ... the fracture may need to be reduced (put back into place) and splinted or casted. If there is an open wound near the ...

It’s the kind of thing runners say offhand when they or a friend have foot pain: “I hope it’s not a stress fracture.” Stress fractures, especially those of the foot, are one of those ...

It’s the kind of thing runners say offhand when they or a friend have foot pain: “I hope it’s not a stress fracture.” Stress fractures, especially those of the foot, are one of those ...

Aqueous skin antisepsis before surgical fixation of open fractures (Aqueous-PREP): a multiple-period, cluster-randomised, crossover trial. The Lancet , 2022 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01652-X Cite ...