Tibia Fracture Treatment and Recovery | OrthoVirginia

Tyler Lesher on Instagram: "Ya the leg isn’t supposed to bend that. Absolutely unfortunate injury and it shows how much forces these athletes are exhibiting tha when the force comes to a screeching halt, that force gets transferred to the bone causing it to fracture. The tibia is a very thick bone and it take a lot to fracture that, especially in half. Surgery is fairly straightforward, align the bones, and put a steel rod down the tibial shaft, and let the bone remodeling take place. From there