Osteoporosis is a condition that weakens the bones, making them brittle and susceptible to fractures. Compression fractures, ...

Oct. 30, 2019 — About half of all women in the U.S. will suffer a bone fracture due to osteoporosis. For women, the incidence of this condition is greater than that of heart attack, stroke and breast ...

Daxton Bennick suffered a vertebra compression fracture in a Lap 1 crash in the Round 13 East / West Showdown feature at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The crash brought out ...

Because the ankle is vulnerable to twists and compression, the fracture of these bones is not uncommon and can sometimes be difficult to treat. When most people describe an ankle fracture ...

A study in France has found that pamidronate (a bone antiresorptive agent) provides rapid and sustained pain relief in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (VCFs), although ...

My teenage son broke his wrist during hurling practice last month. He must wear a plaster cast for at least another two weeks ...

From product launches and milestones, here are five updates in orthobiologics since March 28. 1. Lenoss Medical’s OsteoPearl procedure reached its 150th case. OsteoPearl is an allograft designed to ...

Vertebral height and area—direct measures of bone strength and resistance to compression—significantly increased in treated groups compared with control groups. 2,3 Given the detrimental ...

Results: Axial compression strains (p<0.0001), tension strains ... treadmill runners are at lower risk of developing tibial stress fractures, but less likely to achieve tibial bone strengthening, than ...