Vitamin D and calcium are essential for overall health but don’t reduce the risk of falls or fractures in generally healthy older adults, according to a new draft recommendation from the US ...

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, ...

A new, presumably more precise or, hopefully, more relevant, pain scale, named the Detroit Interventional Pain Management ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In general terms, mechanical factors initiate femoral failure, while biologic components initiate acetabular failure ... which can result in fractures, most of which occur proximally.