Moreover, a specific drug may fall into one or more of these specific drug classes. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are a class of drugs that all have similar analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory properties.
Of these, 60% are calcaneus fractures. The heel bone is often injured in a high-energy collision where other parts of the skeleton are also injured. In up to 10% of cases, the patient can also sustain a fracture of the spine, hip, or the other calcaneus.
8.3.2 The weight of the body is transmitted by the tibia to the talus, which then redistributes this weight to the calcaneus inferiorly (the heel of the foot) and the navicular bone distally (toward the heads of the metatarsals and the ball of the foot).