A 52-year-old man with no relevant past medical history presented to the clinic with chronic right knee pain and difficulty ...

For post-menopausal women, the sudden drop in estrogen after menopause leads to bone loss, weakening the structure of bones ...

This study compared groups of patients with calcaneal fractures of Sanders types II and III. One group was treated with ORIF using an LCP (plate), while the second was treated with a minimally ...

Back to Healio Patients with grade 2 to 4 femoral neck stress fractures experienced longer return-to-running time compared with grade 1 injuries, according to a study. “Grade 1 injuries ...

ORIF and CRIF are the two common techniques to cure femoral neck fracture. The results of the present meta-analysis showed that there was significant difference of AVN between ORIF and CRIF ...

Her team, Picnic-PostNl, announced on social media that she broke her femur in the fall. "She undergoes surgery tomorrow, before beginning the road to recovery at her own pace. Heal up ...

The data selection process was displayed in Figure 1. By the computer search of the electronic databases, totally 820 papers were observed. A total of 126 duplicates and 27 reviews were excluded ...

Scher says. In addition to the approaches described, the fallback treatment for a femur fracture in a child of any age is external fixation. This technique involves the use of rigid metal rods or ...

Unlike a hip fracture, which can be treated relatively easily ... an external frame to temporarily hold the bones in proper alignment while other problems are treated. This is called temporary ...

Patients with incomplete records were excluded from the final analysis. This retrospective cohort study included 70 patients with AO/OTA 32-C2/C3 femoral shaft fractures who underwent IMN fixation at ...

Background: Femoral fractures in hospitalized patients often lead to limited mobility, increasing the risk of complications like deep venous thrombosis (DVT), pressure ulcers, and delirium. These ...

Objective: To evaluate the profile of femur fractures in older adults in Brazil between 2008 and 2018. Methods: Population-based time series study with data from the Department of Informatics of the ...