1 Department of Pediatric Orthopedics, Ningbo No. 6 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhengjiang, China 2 Ningbo Clinical Research Center for Orthopedics, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China ...

Meduloc, a medical device company pioneering innovation in orthopaedic surgery with the mission of advancing fracture fixation technology, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The number of periprosthetic humeral shaft fractures is on the rise related to the increasing performance of ...

Electrical stimulation therapy is a recent, popular alternative treatment. Bone growth stimulators are sometimes used for fractures that haven’t healed on their own. After treatment, your body works ...

In older people, a 'broken wrist' (from a fracture at the lower end of the two forearm bones) can result from a fall onto an outstretched hand. Surgery may be considered for more seriously displaced ...

Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is a type of surgery used to repair broken bones that need to be put back together. During the surgery, some form of hardware is used to hold the bone in ...

, University of Cruz Alta, RS Brazil; , and , University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WVa; , and , Brazil. Although results of studies employing external fixation are quite good, successful ...

Under regional anesthesia, one or two offset pins are inserted into each bony fragment. To avoid damage to the extensor tendon in a closed fracture, the skin is perforated first and the tendon is ...