Carlo Biz, Alberto Crimì, Mariapaola Refolo, Felicia Deborah Zinnarello, Davide Scapinello, Mariachiara Cerchiaro, Pietro Ruggieri
PURPOSE: This historical review aims to highlight the important roles of the talus in antiquity and to summarise the multiple attempts of managing talar fractures throughout history. METHOD: Archaeological, religious, artistic, literary, historical and scientific accounts were searched for the descriptions of talus fractures in different eras and their treatments to provide a thorough analysis of the evolution of trauma care up to the present. RESULTS: This review shows how the talus has always had an important role in several societies: it was used as a die or considered to have a divinatory function in Mesopotamian civilisations, among Greeks and Romans, in Mongolia and in pre-Columbian Americas...
March 16, 2023: International Orthopaedics