Your talus bone is the bottom part of the ankle joint. It connects your foot to the two bones in your lower leg — the tibia and fibula — that make up the top part of the ankle. The talus lies just ...

The talus is the part ankle that allows the foot to move in all different directions. High impact injuries like falls, or traffic accidents can cause the talus bone to be fractured, and a high ...

Doctor at Mercy Orthopedic Associates is an early adopter of innovative procedure Sonnin Dahl endured more than a year of pain before she had an ankle bone replaced at Mercy Regional Medical Center, ...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Patient Specific Talus Spacer 3D-printed talus implant for humanitarian use. The Patient Specific Talus Spacer is the first in the world and ...

Eight years after Hawkins' description of talar neck fractures, Canale and Kelly [20] reported a type IV fracture -- a displaced talar neck fracture with either dislocation or subluxation of all three ...

For the first 15 or so hours after Gracia Sylla woke up from surgery, she couldn’t feel her legs. She was scared and uncertain if the risk she had taken by having an unusual surgery involving a ...

DENVER (CBS4) - An EMT at Purgatory Resort is back on the ski slopes with new mettle, thanks to a revolutionary new metal implant. In November, Dee Dee Carlson had a bone in her ankle replaced with a ...

Trainers are considered to be comfy and casual shoes – but they could be causing long-term damage to your ankle joint. Researchers compared the bones of modern people with ancient hunter-gatherers ...