Tibial shaft fractures Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning Tibial shaft fractures
Conditions
Interventions
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Sponsors
McMaster University (Canada)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Men or women age over 18 years 2. Fracture of the tibial shaft with complete anterioposterior and lateral radiographs 3. Closed or grade I open tibial shaft fracture amenable to non-operative treatment (less than 1.5 cm of shortening, axially stable transverse fractures, spiral oblique of comminuted fractures with less than 12 mm of initial shortening; angulations less than 5° initially; less than 50% displacement) 4. Provision of informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. State that they cannot comply with the study protocol 2. Have pathological fractures or fractures that are to be treated operatively (comminuted fractures; unstable fracture patterns; tibial shaft shortening greater than 1.5 cm) 3. Likely problems, in the judgment of the investigators, with maintaining follow-up (such as no fixed address, plan to move out of town in the next year)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Physical summary score of the 36-item short form health survey (SF-36) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Time to radiographic healing of tibial fractures 2. Rates of malunion and non-union of tibial fractures 3. Rates of secondary procedures (operative and non-operative) | — |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed