Understanding the different fracture types, their causes, risk factors, and healing times can aid in better management and ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Commonly referred to as the heel bone, the calcaneus is the bone in the heel of ...

Less than half of patients had undergone bone monitoring, suggesting a need for better clinical guidance and management of ...

Several uncontrolled case series have described atypical subtrochanteric or femoral shaft fractures after long-term bisphosphonate therapy; the presumed mechanism is oversuppression of bone ...

and more than 500,000 hip replacement surgeries each year involve fractures as a contributing cause. About 1 in 4 patients ...

Stress fractures are now commonly experienced by all athletes, but especially among athletes competing in sports requiring significant running, such as soccer. Causes of Stress Fractures For ...