Your clavicle, or collarbone, is the long, thin bone that connects your chest to your shoulder. You have one on each side of your body. These bones help hold up your shoulders and allow you to move ...

The Catalyst Fracture System received the prestigious “Medical Device Engineering Breakthrough” award in the 10th annual ...

The shoulder is a mobile and complex joint that is prone to dislocation and injury. Several types of shoulder surgery can address and correct various shoulder symptoms. Surgery can repair several ...

Physical therapy and medications are often the first treatment for shoulder injuries. However, shoulder surgery is also an option to repair joints, rotator cuffs, or dislocations, to name a few. The ...

Lehigh University bioengineering PhD student Colin Herna is lead author of a recent paper detailing how he and his team identified measurable differences in the composition of bone marrow extracted ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Each year, more patients are hospitalized for osteoporosis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A human skeleton degenerating due to osteoporosis. The degeneration is the loss of height and the backwards curvature of the spine ...

That unmistakable sound of bone giving way under pressure sends immediate dread through anyone who hears it. Broken bones account for millions of medical visits annually in the United States alone, ...

Our bones are actually an organ, and they make up about 12% of our body weight. Adults have 206 bones. Infants start with 270 ...