If your skin breaks open from the wound, doctors call it an open or compound fracture ... if you have a comminuted fracture. This will help put your broken bones back into place.

A compound fracture almost always requires reduction, a process where the bones are manipulated back into place and set so the ankle and leg can heal correctly, according to the Hospital for ...

Ten days after suffering a compound fracture of his right leg ... And then, apparently, I stepped back. And that must have been when I looked down and I got the visual of my leg flopping around.

“Over the winter, I landed on the injured list with three compound fractures in my back. (I don’t recommend it.) With the start of the baseball season upon us, the Dodgers are ready to ...