Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . James E. Dowd, MD: This patient was a healthy, relatively active 79-year-old woman who suffered a fall ...

During ORIF surgery to fix a severe broken bone, your doctor will need to use some form of hardware to hold the bone back together. (Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) ORIF surgery is needed only for ...

Although proximal distal femur fractures following a total knee replacement (TKR) are not common, they will most likely increase with the current active aging population. 1 Risk factors associated ...

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CurvaFix, Inc., a developer of medical devices to repair fractures in curved bones, today announced it has received 510(k) clearance (K222505) from the U.S. Food & ...

An intertrochanteric fracture is a specific type of hip fracture. “Intertrochanteric” means “between the trochanters,” which are bony protrusions on the femur (thighbone). They’re the points where the ...

Perhaps you or someone you know is preparing for an invasive surgery that requires stabilization of the lower body as a part of the healing process. If this is the case, your doctor has likely ...