“[Fracture] can happen at any time,” Garbuz said. “It can happen during the exposure, especially in revision surgery. It can happen when you are broaching the femur, or often it happens when ...

Distal Femur Fracture: A break in the femur (thigh bone) near the knee joint. Locked Lateral Plating: A surgical technique that uses a plate with locking screws to stabilize a fracture on the ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Severe hip arthritis can cause pain and difficulty walking. Many people who have these debilitating symptoms because of hip arthritis will elect to undergo ...

Femoral shaft fractures ... functional scores at six months post-surgery. Factors such as age under 35, urgent surgical management, and specific fracture types were identified as risk factors ...

or ball to the ball and hip socket, So here's some cartilage here, but there's no cartilage there, that's basically raw bone and he's been walking on a surface of raw bone there and that's very ...

Myocardial injury after a hip fracture is common and has a poor prognosis. Patients with a hip fracture and myocardial injury ...

For older adults undergoing hemiarthroplasty for hip fracture, intraoperative use ... reports a study in Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. "Use of liposomal bupivacaine is not associated with ...

Osteoporosis is a disease in which bone resorbs faster than it is formed, gradually weakening its structure over time and ...

Older patients who underwent hip fracture surgery with either regional anesthesia without sedation or general anesthesia experienced similar incidences of postoperative cognitive decline.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva explained Friday that he will be undergoing surgery later this month to correct his femur problems. “I'm going to stop because, I want to confess ...

A new study revealed a strikingly high prevalence of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (SKOA) among patients with fragility hip ...