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...often does. "The typical ski injury," says Garrick, "involves a woman around 18 to 20 who is just beginning. As she makes a turn maneuver on a gentle slope, she goes down in a slow, twisting fall. She feels something snap; she has fractured the shaft of her tibia and fibula, the two bones of the lower...
...mountain itself, the most common injuries used to be simple fractures of the lateral malleolus, or anklebone, and low-level spiral fractures of the tibia and fibula. But now that higher, more rigid ski boots are in style, doctors are encountering the more serious "boot-top fracture," in which the tibia and fibula are snapped well above the ankle. A simple ankle fracture takes six to eight weeks to knit properly; a simple boot-top break can require as long as 16 weeks...
...lower than that of its unaffected mate. Quickly, both foot and leg stump were carefully cleansed. An anticoagulant salt solution was forced through the foot's major arteries to flush small blood clots and other circulatory blocks. The lower ends of the two leg bones, the tibia and fibula, as well as some of the talus or anklebone, were trimmed, and two stainless-steel nails were driven up through the heel into the tibia (see diagram). With his ankle fused, Liang's right leg was shortened...
...four operations, a month or more apart, he shortened first one thigh, then the other, then one lower leg, then the other. The surgery involved sawing out almost four inches of the single bone (femur) in each thigh and about 3½ in. of the two bones (tibia and fibula) in the legs. The extra lengths of arteries and veins, muscles and tendons, had to be squeezed in and left to "take up the slack" by a gradual, concertina-like contraction...
...gamely kept trying. No matter how much it hurts, he will have to repeat that exercise scores of times a day. Hundreds of times a day he will have to contract the big quadriceps muscle that runs down the front of the thigh, tying together the femur, kneecap and tibia. With knee bent and also extended, he will lift weights on his right foot. By July, if all goes well, he should be ready for practice, and for the rigors of professional football...