It depends on where the fracture is.
1. Upper 1/4 th portion -- An important nerve called peroneal nerve may be injured.
2. Middle portion -- Usually safe to leave alone if tibia is not broken.
3. Lower 1/4th portion -- Almost always treated by plaster or surgery.
You need to consult an orthopaedic surgeon for best advice as it is impossible to give an ideal treatment without looking at the xray.
Six to eight weeks. Expect to limp for a while after that until the muscles build back up. Your doctor should have explained all this to you when you got your cast.
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only a few bones are unable to be broken due to their physiology, location or size. both the tibia and fibula can be broken
There's the femur (thigh bone), then there's the tibia and fibula. There are also the tarsal and metatarsals in your ankle and feet, respectively.The Latin medical prefix for the upper leg is "femoral" and the front of the lower leg is "crural." The back of the calf is known as "sural."
US lead off runner Manteo Mitchell in the 4x400 relay (he had broken his left fibula)
i tripped and fell and whacked the bone on the outside of my ankle. it is discolored and is kind of bruised. it hurts to walk and i am having trouble moving my toes. my foot is numb and tingles everynow and then. did i possibly break it? can you walk on a broken fibula?
No, you don't need an operation, unless an operation is needed to fix it! What I mean by that is that only if your surgeon recommends an operation to fix a broken fibula should you consider having one. You don't need a joined up fibula to walk or run or do anything that you would normally do, as the fibula normally only carries around 10% of your body weight. Without it and your tibia will bear the weight. I broke both my tib and fib some years ago, and still have a rod and pin in my tib. But my fibula never heald and still has a gap of around an inch in it. I mountainbike, rugby referee and skydive without any adverse effect.
Of course you can, but I think it would be an interesting fall to watch.
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The distal ends of the tibia and fibula are the malleoli (singular malleolus). The tibia has the medial malleolus, and the fibula has the lateral malleolus.
The medial malleolus is located on the tibia. The fibula forms the lateral malleolus.
The fibula is lateral to the tibia.