When you fracture a bone, the injury sets off a very intricate and lengthy healing process. Bones are tough, but they’re not able to heal from a fracture in a day, a week, or even a month. It takes ...

A research team from the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the University of Hong Kong’s LKS Faculty of Medicine ...

Various natural approaches can support bone health. However, none are proven to dissolve bone spurs. Bone spurs, or osteophytes, are bony projections that develop along bone edges, often in the joints ...

A research team from the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has successfully developed a novel elastic calcium phosphate ...

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, ...

RIT engineering technology researcher Christopher Lewis develops self-healing materials to improve 3D printing processes and ...

For some time now, we've heard about scaffolding-like materials that are implanted into bone fractures, prompting the body's own bone cells to grow into them and heal the break. Now, however, ...

Healing broken bones could get easier with a device that provides both a scaffold for the bone to grow on and electrical stimulation to urge it forward, UConn engineers reported on June 27 in the ...

Electrical stimulation is an alternative therapy that has grown in popularity in recent years, specifically for bone healing. Devices such as bone stimulators, are often used for fractures that have ...

In more complex bone problems like severe, irregular fractures or resections done as part of bone cancer treatment, the bone ...