UD engineer Michael Hast leads an NIH-funded effort to identify impaired bone healing earlier with MRI-based computer models Healing a broken bone can take months, and knowing whether recovery is on ...

Bone has a remarkable capacity for self-repair, but when a defect grows too large—exceeding what surgeons call the critical ...

Healing a broken bone can take months, and knowing whether recovery is on track often takes just as long. Doctors typically rely on periodic X-rays, capturing two-dimensional images to see how the ...

A polymer membrane implant that speeds bone healing is headed soon to a human clinical trial. A new animal study indicates that healing time is about 40% faster for the new product from a company ...

Large bone defects are among the most stubborn challenges in orthopaedic medicine. When trauma, tumor resection, infection, ...

Stopping Movement Too Soon, or Too Late Rest after a fracture is not the same as complete immobility. A 2019 study published ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine—Tucson found evidence that a drug that improves the ability to walk in people with multiple sclerosis can also make bone fractures heal ...

Newswise — Rarely will physicians use the word "miraculous" when discussing patient recoveries. But that's the very phrase orthopaedic physicians and scientists are using in upstate New York to ...

We sometimes hear concerns from those considering RIBXCAR, asking, "Won't they just return to their original state over time?

Most guns are tools for doing harm, but a team of American and Korean scientists has developed one that does the opposite, helping to patch up bone injuries. It comes a bit short of the Medigun from ...

Bone breakages are a common injury worldwide. Some of these heal readily, whereas other injuries do not and this leads to long-term injuries and this risk of disability. Slow-healing or non-healing ...

Anyone who’s spent time around a child with a broken bone knows the drill. There are the doctor visits, the X-rays, the anxious waiting to see if everything is healing properly. And for kids? The ...