Bone Health

The original Powerpoint presentation from a 4th year Med Student in the USAF has been withdrawn and is replaced by this list

Paul Tornetta III, MD: We know decision making with respect to calcaneal fracture management can be difficult. Can classification help? Classification is only valuable if it is prognostic and if it assists decision making. Otherwise, it is useless.

Richard E. Buckley, MD. Excellent presentation on methods of treatment of calcaneal fractures. For educational purposes may be copied, adapted and presented with acknowledgements to Dr Buckley and OTA

The classifications for adult both bone forearm fractures apply descriptive terms about the location of the fracture in bone, whether one or both bones are fractured, the degrees of comminution, displacement ,angulation and whether the fracture is open or closed.
OTA basic Fracture Course

IM Nailing for Open Tibial Fractures

Acetabular Fractures: Diagnosis, Treatment, Indications, Outcome
OTA Basic Fracture Course

Ankle Fracture Classification Weber A and B
Raymond White MD
OTA Basic Fracture Course

Bone Grafting and Bone Graft Substances

Classification of Tibial Plateux fractures. A plateau is a region with little or no change in geographical representation.

OTA Core Curriuculum

Fractures will heal without surgery - sometimes. For the past 50,000 years that hominids have been present, in all but the last 100 years, their fractures healed without surgery. There is no question that we have had many a short legged, crooked armed, gimpy ancestor - but their fractures did heal and so there is an inherent biology in fracture care that has to be respected. Fractures want to heal. We must encourage them to heal in a functional position.

Closed Fractures Tibial shaft fractures: Closed Reduction versus ORIF

Compartment Syndromes

OTA core curriculum

Current Concepts
OTA Basic Fracture Course Edward W. Rutledge, MD