Many fractures are early-warning signs of osteoporosis. Yet in everyday clinical care they often go unrecognized and ...

Osteoporosis can lead to chronic pain in hips, lower back, hands, knees, and neck. Bone density scans, imaging, and blood tests can help identify the cause of bone pain. Depending on the cause, bone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 19—A simple accident like tripping on a rug or slipping on a wet floor can change your life. If you fall, you could break a ...

Falls, vehicle accidents, and assaults are the top causes of skull fractures [1]. Nausea, seizures, and consciousness changes may indicate brain injury [2]. Pediatric skull fractures often require ...

A pelvic fracture is a break in one or more of the bones in the pelvis. This includes the sacrum, coccyx, ilium, ischium, and pubis. The type of pelvic fracture a person has may depend on the trauma ...

A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is a break in an individual bone, or vertebra, of the spine that causes the vertebra to collapse. A lumbar VCF affects the lower spine. When a VCF occurs, the ...

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

A study at Ulm University and its Medical Center has uncovered the molecular mechanisms by which psychological trauma and other massively stressful experiences slow down the healing of bone fractures.