This is part two of a series on hip fractures. Part one was published on page 4C in the May 16 print edition. When a hip fracture happens, quick treatment is very important. Surgery and proper medical ...

Cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabigerol (CBG) might someday help bone fracture patients manage their pain, according to a new study. In a study in mice, the researchers unexpectedly found that the ...

Penn Medicine researchers unveiled in a recently published paper that a type of stem cell originating in skeletal muscle cells can turn into bone. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Angulated fractures involve a broken bone that tilts at an angle. Most cases require some form of realignment using a cast or other measures for proper healing. An angulated fracture occurs when a ...

An 81-year-old woman with remote left distal humerus open reduction and internal fixation presented to the clinic after a ...

It's time to rewrite the textbook description of bone fracture healing. The findings shift understanding of how fractures heal and have implications for efforts to promote fracture repair. "Many of ...

Repetitive and excessive stress on a bone can cause stress fractures that most often involve the leg or foot. These are common injuries that many patients overlook until the injury worsens and causes ...

Growth plate fractures are injuries to the soft connective tissue in the ends of long bones of children and teens. This soft tissue makes it possible for bones to grow as children age. It’s also ...

We use our hands for almost every type of activity. But hands are complex, and when a part of them gets damaged, it can affect the whole hand. A metacarpal fracture is a break in one of the hand bones ...

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 pressure ...