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288 episodes
Chapter 42 - Part E: The Frame Should Change as the Biology Changes
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 42 — External Skeletal Fixation with the idea that an external fixator should not be treated as a static construct:The right frame today may be the wrong frame later...
Chapter 42 - Part D: Rings Turn Thin Wires Into a Three-Dimensional Machine
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 42 — External Skeletal Fixation with a completely different way to think about fixation:The wire provides fixation. The ring turns fixation into a machine.
Chapter 42 - Part C: Frame Stiffness Is a Geometry Problem
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 42 — External Skeletal Fixation with a mechanical principle that changes how you think about ESF construction:Frame stiffness is a geometry problem, not an in...
Chapter 42 - Part B: The Pin-Bone Interface Is the Weak Link
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 42 — External Skeletal Fixation by focusing on the part of the construct most likely to determine whether the frame survives:The frame can be perfect and stil...
Chapter 42 - Part A: The Frame Lives Outside. The Biology Stays Inside.
In this BoardsCast episode, we begin Tobias Chapter 42 — External Skeletal Fixation with the philosophy that makes ESF fundamentally different from internal fixation:The frame lives outside. The biology stays insi...
Chapter 41 - Part E: The Plate Is a System, Not a Strip of Metal
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 41 — Internal Fracture Fixation with a major mechanical reframe:The plate does not decide the job. The construct does. A plate is not just a s...
Chapter 41 - Part D: A Screw Is a Force Converter
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 41 — Internal Fracture Fixation with a simple mechanical reframe:A screw is a force converter. The exact same screw can either simply hold two fragments in ...
Chapter 41 - Part C: Lock the Nail. Control the Fracture.
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 41 — Internal Fracture Fixation with the mechanical upgrade that turns a simple IM pin into a true fracture-control system:A regular IM pin controls bending. Lock th...
Chapter 41 - Part B: Every Implant Has One Job It Does Best
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 41 — Internal Fracture Fixation with one core rule:The implant isn’t good or bad. The implant is matched or mismatched. Every implant has a me...
Chapter 41 - Part A: Reconstruct It or Bridge It?
In this BoardsCast episode, we begin Tobias Chapter 41 — Internal Fracture Fixation with the decision that should come before implant selection:Strategy first. Hardware second. Before choosing a plate, na...
Chapter 40 - Part E: Stability Is Part of Infection Control
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 40 — Open Fractures with a principle that changes how fixation should be chosen:The strongest construct is not automatically the best construct. In an open...
Chapter 40 - Part D: Cover the Bone. Restore the Biology.
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 40 — Open Fractures with a simple but essential principle:Coverage is not cosmetic. Coverage is biology. You can perfectly stabilize an open fracture and s...
Chapter 40 - Part C: Infection Control Is a Race, Not a Clock
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 40 — Open Fractures by challenging one of the oldest rules in open-fracture management:Biology doesn’t own a stopwatch.The historical “six-hour rule” is not a bi...
Chapter 40 - Part B: The Wound Tells You the Risk
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 40 — Open Fractures with a critical reframe:Don’t grade the hole. Grade the injury. The size of the skin wound does not tell you how severe an open fractur...
Chapter 40 - Part A: The Bone Is Broken. The Envelope Is Broken Too.
In this BoardsCast episode, we begin Tobias Chapter 40 — Open Fractures with a critical reframe:An open fracture is a whole-patient, whole-limb injury — not just a broken bone. The exposed fracture may be the mo...
Chapter 39 - Part E: Stability Chooses the Healing Path â Primary vs Secondary Bone Healing
In this BoardsCast episode, we finish Tobias Chapter 39 — Bone Biomechanics and Fracture Biology with the idea that ties mechanics and biology together:You do not make bone heal. You create the mechanical and biologic environme...
Chapter 39 - Part D: The Gap Is Not the Problem: Interfragmentary Strain Controls What Tissue Can Live
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 39 — Bone Biomechanics and Fracture Biology with a counterintuitive idea:The gap is not the problem. The strain environment is the problem. A tiny fracture ...
Chapter 39 - Part C: Speed Changes the Failure: Bone Is Stronger Fast, but Breaks Worse
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 39 — Bone Biomechanics and Fracture Biology with a biomechanical paradox:Bone can become stronger and stiffer when loaded faster — and still fail worse. The...
Chapter 39 - Part B: Bone Breaks According to the Load: Reading the Fracture Pattern Backward
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 39 — Bone Biomechanics and Fracture Biology with a simple but powerful reframe:A fracture line is the fossilized record of the forces that caused it. A frac...
Chapter 39 - Part A: Force Is Not the Same as Stress: How Bones Experience Load
In this BoardsCast episode, we begin Tobias Chapter 39 — Bone Biomechanics and Fracture Biology with a simple but critical distinction:Force happens TO the bone. Stress happens INSIDE the bone. Strain tells you how the bone res...
Chapter 38 - Part E: Muscle Makes Force. Connective Tissue Delivers It: Contraction, Force Transmission, and Regeneration
In this BoardsCast episode, we finishTobias Chapter 38 — Tissues of the Musculoskeletal System with a simple but powerful reframe:The sarcomere is the engine. Connective tissue is the transmission. A musc...
Chapter 38 - Part D: Direction Determines Strength: Tendons, Ligaments, and the Tendon-to-Bone Interface
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 38 — Tissues of the Musculoskeletal System with the rule that explains why tendons and ligaments can be incredibly strong in one direction and surprisingly vulnerable i...
Chapter 38 - Part C: Cartilage Is a Water Mattress Inside a Collagen Net: Compression, Lubrication, and Why Cartilage Fails Differently
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 38 — Tissues of the Musculoskeletal System by rebuilding the way you think about articular cartilage.The central mental model:Cartilage is not a rubber...
Chapter 38 - Part B: Bone Is a Living Composite: Why Bone Can Be Hard, Tough, and Adaptive
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 38 — Tissues of the Musculoskeletal System by answering a deceptively simple question:How can bone be hard enough to resist compression, tough enough to resis...
Chapter 38 - Part A: The Matrix Is the Machine: Extracellular Matrix and Mechanotransduction
In this BoardsCast episode, we jump back to Tobias Chapter 38 — Tissues of the Musculoskeletal System — and rebuild the way you think about connective tissue from the ground up.The central idea:The extracel...