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OTA Core Curriuculum

OTA core curriculum

OTA Core Curriculum Lectures Prolonged download time

OTA Core Curriculum

Paul Tornetta III, MD: We know decision making with respect to calcaneal fracture management can be difficult. Can classification help? Classification is only valuable if it is prognostic and if it assists decision making. Otherwise, it is useless.

Richard E. Buckley, MD. Excellent presentation on methods of treatment of calcaneal fractures

The classifications for both bone forearm fractures apply descriptive terms about the location of the fracture in bone, whether one or both bones are fractured, the degrees of comminution, displacement ,angulation and whether the fracture is open or closed.

IM Nailing for Open Tibial Fractures

Acetabular Fractures: Diagnosis, Treatment, Indications, Outcome

Ankle Fracture Classification

Weber C

Bone Grafting and Bone Graft Substances

Classification of Pelvic Ring Fractures

Classification of Tibial Plateux fractures. A plateau is a region with little or no change in geographical representation.

Fractures will heal without surgery - sometimes. For the past 50,000 years that hominids have been present, in all but the last 100 years, their fractures healed without surgery. There is no question that we have had many a short legged, crooked armed, gimpy ancestor - but their fractures did heal and so there is an inherent biology in fracture care that has to be respected. Fractures want to heal. We must encourage them to heal in a functional position.