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Contact Pressure Reduction in the Anterior Ankle During Placement of Short Leg Splints

CATEGORY: Trauma; Ankle INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE: Lower extremity splints are commonly used in orthopaedic care throughout emergency departments, operating rooms, and outpatient clinics. Although the mainstay of ankle immobilization, they have been associated with ulcers due to high contact pressures ov...

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Autores principales: Farrar, Nicholas, Walley, Kempland C., Shams, Kameron A., Mell, Kristopher, Walton, David M., Holmes, James R., Talusan, Paul G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8792710/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2473011421S00195