Sentence examples for spanning the ankle from inspiring English sources
This was corrected with a frame spanning the ankle.
This could have also been avoided by spanning the ankle joint with the frame from the beginning.
Williams et al. [10] reported clinical outcomes of tibial plafond fractures with associated fibula fractures stabilised using monolateral external fixators spanning the ankle joint.
Tornetta et al. [71] reported the use of a femoral distractor spanning the ankle joint in a pilon fracture, demonstrating that an external fixator could restore tibial length without fixation of the fibula.
Footwear modification is also required if the fixator spans the ankle through use of a heel ring and fixation in the calcaneum.
Stepwise regression models indicated that some of the variability in walking speed (400-m walk times) for the men was explained by measures of the power produced in the sagittal plane by muscles that span the hip and ankle joints when walking at a moderate speed (0.89 m/s) (R = 0.32, P = 0.025).
The increased duration of the change in OxyHb evoked by ankle exercise is considered sufficient to span the timing of the initial change in hemodynamics induced by postural changes.
Open image in new window Fig. 12 Ankle and knee spanning fixator configurations: in the ankle the os calcis, talar neck and 1st or 5th metatarsals are useful locations for siting pins; for the knee, proximal femoral pins in the sagittal plane are augmented by an additional third pin placed obliquely from the anterolateral side, just proximal to the suprapatellar pouch.
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