Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite higher interfragmentary strains placed on distal femur fractures when weight-bearing during early ...

New research highlights a novel bone anabolic agent that, when injected, intravenously reduces femur fracture healing time by 60 percent without impacting the surrounding healthy tissue. There are ...

No matter how large or small the injury, breaking a bone is a traumatic event. “There’s a big psychological component to breaking a bone,” says Matthew S. Grunkemeyer, M.D. “It's hard when a patient ...

A team of orthopedic surgeons from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that modern technology for healing distal femur fractures is as safe and effective as its ...

Results showed any radiographic cortical bridging by 4 months after treatment of supracondylar femur fractures with locking plate fixation accurately and reliably predicted outcomes of final healing.

Junk Food May Erode Bones Long Before Old Age, Study Finds In A Nutshell A 12-year study of more than 163,000 adults found ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that in 2010, there were 258,000 hospital admissions for hip fractures among Americans aged 65 and older. Although patients with hip fractures ...