Fig. 2: Distribution of patients. Patients were excluded for the following reasons: age less than 18 years (29 patients), referred by another hospital or a general practitioner (4), pregnant (3), reason for exclusion unknown (3), injured more than 5 days before (2), lack of insurance (1) and head injury (1). The following types of fracture were observed: fracture of fifth metatarsal (16 cases), Weber B fracture (8), trimalleolar fracture (7), Weber A fracture (7), Weber C fracture (7), fracture of calcaneus (6), fracture of cuboid (6), fracture of medial malleolus (5), bimalleolar fracture (3), avulsion fracture of fibula (3), fracture of talus (3), fracture of navicular bone (1), fracture of first to fourth metatarsal (1), and Volkmann fracture (1). Fractures are defined as follows: Weber A — fibular fracture distal from the tibiofibular syndesmosis; Weber B — fibular fracture at the level of the tibiofibular syndesmosis; Weber C — fibular fracture proximal of the tibiofibular syndesmosis; and Volkmann – triplane fracture of dorsal tibia. A clinically significant fracture was defined as an apparent dislocation of more than 2 mm and a fracture line more than 3 mm across.