Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The reduced risks for osteoporotic and hip fractures with bisphosphonate therapy outweigh increased risk for ...

With increasing life expectancy, frailty and hip fractures will correspondingly increase in numbers, now at more than 300,000 fractures per year and projected to rise to more than 500,000 by 2040. Hip ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For decades, the treatment for a young child with a broken femur has been the same: a surgically placed spica cast, commonly known as a body cast. But now, thanks to a ...

AMERICAN orthopedic surgeons have been skeptical about the use of medullary nailing of long-bone fractures. This, I think, is fortunate, as the slow acceptance of this technic has allowed us to avoid ...

With CMS bundled payments expanding from joint replacement procedures to hip and femur fracture surgeries, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies offer consulting and data insights to help health ...

In a new study published in Engineering, Academician Yingze Zhang’s research team introduces the Proximal Femur Bionic Nail (PFBN) as a potential panacea for unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures ...

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, 250031 Jinan, China. 2 Research on 2013 stage doctoral student of TCM Orthopaedics, Shandong University of Traditional ...

A subchondral fracture is a type of injury that occurs due to repetitive stress in the layer of bone tissue just beneath the cartilage. It often happens to the knees or hips of older adults.