While commonly referred to as a “broken wrist,” most wrist fractures are actually fractures of one or both of the two bones of the forearm, the radius and the ulna. A fracture of the distal radius is ...

Buckle fractures are a type of bone injury that happen in children. They're incomplete fractures — the bone is not broken all the way through. These fractures result from sudden force or ...

A fibula fracture occurs when there is a partial or complete break of the fibula bone. The fibula is the smaller of two bones of the lower leg, situated between the knee and ankle, that helps keep the ...

If you have suffered a lower-extremity fracture, you may need to undergo open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) to repair the break. This involves non-removable, internal hardware like metal pins, ...

Doctors from St. Luke's Medical Center presented advanced technologies that can be used on Guam during a pre-Christmas ...

You can’t study what you can’t measure. Right? A new, presumably more precise or, hopefully, more relevant, pain scale, named ...

She also suffered at least 25 fractures, including a broken hyoid bone in her neck and 11 fractures to her spine, inflicted by beatings with a cricket bat, metal pole, and mobile phone ...

The Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) calculates your chance of getting a fracture in the next decade, taking into account multiple risk factors. The higher your score, the more likely it is ...