Whether you are a competitive athlete or an older adult, strong bones are essential—not only for movement, but also for ...

Orthopaedic screws stabilise fractures and ensure proper cohesion of bone fragments. Despite their key role, complications can occur when screws loosen or even break. Until now, it has been difficult ...

Metal screws are indispensable in bone surgery, but they can fail under everyday stress and complications can occur when ...

A radiologist or orthopedist often confirms the stress fracture diagnosis by seeing the calcification of new bone growth on your X-ray. In certain cases your doctor may order a bone scan or MRI to ...

Serota, MD, CCFP, CCD Osteoporosis has been called a "silent" disease because the loss of bone progresses gradually without pain or symptoms until a fracture occurs. The best test to determine the ...

State Key Laboratory for Deep GeoMechanics and Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology Beijing, D11 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China ...

While a doctor said the fractures could have been caused by a rare bone disease, the brain bleeds could not be justified. Choate was detained at the hospital, and “made an unsolicited response ...

In this discussion, a genetic bone disorder Fibrous Dysplasia (FD) is considered, which replaces the bone tissues with fibrous tissues which lead to bone fracture or bone deformity ... which are ...

Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Bone fractures are today stabilized with screws and metal plates. More complicated fractures require alternative ...

MRI plays an important roll in the diagnosis of stress fractures and in imaging acute bone stress changes in bone. [1] In the foot, MRI offers an accurate means of identifying acute bone stress ...

Objectives We evaluated the effect of a nutrition education intervention on bone stress injury (BSI ... Given that dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans were not routinely obtained in the ...

Stress fractures can be reliably detected using a bone scan. Identified horses can often recover and return to racing. Two weeks ago, the CHRB sent out a memorandum to encourage horsemen to review ...