Doctors said my arthritis was probably hereditary. Apparently, my hip sockets are very shallow, which means the ball of the ball-and-socket joint doesn't sit as well as it should. But, happily ...

Prospective dog owners should be aware their puppy could be predisposed to developing a painful and incurable condition.

or ball to the ball and hip socket, So here's some cartilage here, but there's no cartilage there, that's basically raw bone and he's been walking on a surface of raw bone there and that's very ...

Extension of the hip joint occurs when the femur moves backwards, which happens in the preparation for a kick in football, or in the back leg as a gymnast performs a split leap. Ball and socket ...

Norton’s drive is fueled by more than personal ambition. “I picture my family watching at home—my grandpa, my mom,” he says. “That’s pretty important to me, to show up as the person they’d want me to ...

In Landis' case, problems were complicated further since the area normally fed by the injured vessels was the femoral head, or tip of the thigh bone, which sits directly inside the hip socket.

The shoulder and hip joints are both ball and socket joints. A ball and socket joint is a type of synovial joint that allows movement in almost every direction. A ball and socket joint is made up ...

The hip, which is a ball-and-socket joint at the upper thigh bone, is most likely to be fractured at its uppermost portion, known as the femoral neck. Over 300,000 people per year sustain hip ...