Broken Leg Causes. It usually takes quite a bit of force to break bones in your leg. If your bones have been weakened somehow, they can be broken more easily.

Symptoms of bone cancer in the leg may include pain and swelling. The weakening of bones from cancer may also cause breaks or fractures and lead to mobility issues. People may also experience ...

To avoid amputating the preschooler's dominant arm, Myles, 5, had a "redundant" bone from his left leg transplanted into his arm during an 18-hour surgery; Now 14, ...

Two human leg bones were recently found at a Philadelphia park, although authorities are still trying to figure out who they belong to and what might have happened to them.

Leg-length discrepancies are rarely the result of having one leg bone that's truly longer than the other. More often than not, they're caused by a tight hamstring or iliotibial band that jacks up ...

A new kind of prosthesis depends on carbon fibre and computer chips—and the reëngineering of muscles and bone. Rivka Galchen writes about the surgeon Matthew Carty, who is rethinking ...