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What is Open Reduction & Internal Fixation?

Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is a kind of surgery utilized to stabilize and heal a broken bone. You might require this process to treat your broken ankle. The surgery is done using orthopedic surgical instruments. The ankle joint is made up of three bones. These are tibia (shinbone), the talus (a bone in your foot), and the fibula (the smaller bone in your leg) Various kinds of injury can damage the lower fibula, lower tibia, or talus. Only one of these bones might break, or you might have a fracture in two or more of these bones. In some types of fractures, your bone breaks but the portions still line up accurately. In other kinds of fractures, the injury can move the fragments of bone out of alignment.

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Figure 5. Open humerus fracture requiring serial debridements and initial external fixation, eventually converted to an open reduction with internal fixation (ORIF) when wound clean and covered at same setting with lateral flap.

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