Singapore Sports and Orthopaedic Clinic

Fractures of the tibia or femur (shinbone or thighbone) have been fixed using hardware such as screws and plates since 1939, when Gerhard Kuntscher reintroduced a procedure called marrow nailing, insertion of a special nail into the marrow space of the bone. The technique became more refined in the 1950s and now in the 2010s, [...]