My wife recently sustained a tibial plateau fracture while skiing. Can you tell us more about these injuries? Tibial plateau fractures are common ski injuries. On a given winter weekend of taking ...
Fractures of the tibial plateau are severe injuries, accounting for 5–8% of all fractures of the lower leg. The most frequent reasons for these injuries are falls, traffic accidents and sports trauma.
Correspondence to: Dr Milgrom, Department of Orthopaedics, Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Kerem, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem, Israel; milgrom{at}md2.huji.ac.il Background: Repetitive high bone strain ...