After performing complex surgery to correct a leg-bone deformity in a 15-year-old from Jerusalem, pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dr. Eitan Segev explained to the patient and his parents that they now ...

The external fixator — a bracing device of outer rings with wires that pierced through Smith’s right leg — was used to stabilize the veteran quarterback’s broken fibula and tibia.

Dr. Pinzur has performed more than 560 Charcot foot operations with the external fixation device, which is believed to be the most such procedures performed by any surgeon in the world.

Lengthening of an abnormally short lower limb can be done after an osteotomy using an external fixation device. This exerts force along the long axis of the bone to induce new bone formation ...