How to fix ankle fractures.

So when we do insert metal into the ankle joint for fixation it would either be such as this plate and some screws holding the fracture in place and usually a separate screw which compresses the fracture or sometimes we use a bigger screw that joins the two bones together and to squash the two bones together and this screw is often removed at a later date. So these are ways of fixing ankle fractures. Post-operatively the regime usually involves two weeks in a plaster cast and then depending on the severity of the injury and the strength of the bone we can either put the patient into a boot and start them walking on it or we keep them in a plaster for a longer period of time usually six weeks.