Metal screws are indispensable in bone surgery, but they can fail under everyday stress and complications can occur when ...

NEW YORK — With his fractured left ankle in a boot, propped up on a padded cushion atop a scooter, Oswaldo Cabrera wheeled his way into the Yankees clubhouse on Thursday afternoon. Cabrera took ...

fixation techniques in managing ankle fractures. Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF): A surgical procedure that repositions fractured bone fragments and secures them with plates and screws.

Orthopaedic screws stabilise fractures and ensure proper cohesion of bone fragments. Despite their key role, complications can occur when screws loosen or even break. Until now, it has been difficult ...

Most people still only address their bone health after a fragility fracture — broken bones in situations a healthy skeleton would withstand. Yecies said the collapse of fractured vertebrae in ...

Ankle fractures, particularly those accompanied ... (ORIF): A surgical procedure to anatomically realign fractured bone fragments and stabilise them with internal implants. Supination–external ...

In 2021, Newman underwent ankle fusion surgery, which joined his ankle bones together to form one bone. He had more surgery in March to replace his ankle with a metal joint in a Melbourne hospital.

The purpose of this shaping is to limit any risk of fracture. Understanding that a bone’s fracture resistance is based on engineering rules which would predict a completely straight shape to be ...

WASHINGTON — Arthroscopic superior capsular reconstruction and bridging graft had similar clinical and radiological outcomes at 5 years in the treatment of massive, irreparable rotator cuff ...