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Ankle Fracture: How Stability Decides Treatment, and Why Early Weight-Bearing Now Wins

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An ankle fracture is one of the commonest injuries an adult can suffer, and one of the most variable in how it is treated: a walking boot and a few weeks of patience at one end, plates, screws and months of rehabilitation at the other. The difference is not the size of the crack on the X-ray. It is whether the ring of bone and ligament around the ankle is still holding together.

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