Avi Kumar, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with Bradenton, Fla.-based Coastal Orthopedics, performed the first case with a shoulder fracture plate that he invented. Dr. Kumar came up with the idea for ...

P.C. ANSWER: The FRAX score is a way of combining a person’s measured bone density with clinical risk factors like age, sex and weight to provide an estimate of the fracture risk. Most ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A 50-year-old woman was hospitalized after San Diego Police said she suffered multiple foot fractures when a San Diego Metropolitan Transit System bus ran over her left foot in ...

Research shows that dietary supplementation of calcium and vitamin D can help decrease the risk of fracture (breaks in bone) in postmenopausal ... together or on one foot, then shift your body ...

New York Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez will undergo surgery on a broken left hamate bone and miss six to eight weeks, ...

YOU might not think much about the 206 bones that make up your skeleton. That is until yours start to ache, or you suffer from a break or fracture. “Your bones are one of the most important ...

14, 2025 — Researchers have found that proteins and pathways involved in inflammation are associated with changes in bone mineral density ... Increase Risk of Hip Fracture in Older Adults ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510 (k) clearance to a bone fracture fixation system with locking wrist plates.

The first case of a dermatitis reaction over a stainless steel fracture plate was described in 1966 ... However, other metal ions as well as bone cement components can cause such hypersensitivity ...