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‘Lime bike leg’: what doctors are seeing in ebike crashes
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Doctors at a London trauma centre are observing a pattern of severe injuries from electric bike crashes, with a case study of a man who sustained a complex tibia fracture requiring multiple surgeries after a shared ebike accident.
‘Lime bike leg’: what doctors are seeing in ebike crashes
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A man in his 30s arrived at the Royal London Major Trauma Centre after what sounded like a relatively minor cycling accident. He had been riding a shared ebike when he lost control and fell. By the time I met him, scans had revealed a complex fracture around his ankle where his shinbone (tibia) had pierced through his skin. He would need multiple surgeries to fix his broken bone and grafting of his skin and muscles, followed by many months of rehabilitation and a p
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