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Your leg contains four bones and the hip bends, knee and ankle (the fémur, the patella, the tibia, and the fibulation). These bones can break into 2 or more pieces following an accident. If a broken bone, either by cutting it over the fracture or by sticking it out across the cut, is exposed to the outside, an open fracture is referred to as it is. Sometimes it is called a fracture of the compound. Any of these bones can include a break in the leg: • In the thigh is the femur. It is the bone of the body's length and strength. To make the hip joint, the top section of the femur is fitted into the pelvis. It can move forward, backward, sideways and rotate in and out of this joint. It's the upper part of the femur that is broken when you talk about a "broken hip." • On the top of the tibia is the lower end of the femur, which forms the knee. On the knee, the leg may swing slightly to the front, back and even rotate . • The kneecap glides in front of the knee...