An important patient care skill is the ability to rapidly immobilize a suspected lower extremity fracture. Many lower extremity fractures are particularly emergent, both due to the forces involved in ...

In the medical world, shin splints are known as medial tibial stress syndrome. This refers to the pain along your tibia, the long bone in the front of your lower leg or shin. Shin splints is a ...

FORT DETRICK, Md – A method for rapidly splinting injured limbs developed with the assistance of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command is being incorporated into the next generation ...

When a medical professional refers to your lower extremity, they’re typically referring to everything between your hip to your toes. The muscles in your lower extremity contract and relax to move ...