Any kind of fracture was predictive of more fractures in postmenopausal women, new data suggested. In a prospective, observational study of over 66,000 women from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), ...

What Is an Avulsion Fracture? An avulsion fracture happens when a ligament or tendon pulls away a small piece of a bone. This usually results from an accident or traumatic injury. Avulsion fractures ...

University of Utah Health Orthopaedics has fellowship-trained orthopedic trauma surgeons with expertise in fracture care. We have a full-service Level 1 trauma center serving the Mountain West region.

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with patients with isolated acetabular fractures, patients with pelvic ring fractures – specifically ...

A new article in JBMR Plus, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that patient survival rates after hip or other bone fractures can be very poor. While patients and their families may ...