Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hip fractures include fractures of the head, neck, intertrochanteric, and subtrochanteric regions. Head ...

Your femur connects many important muscles, tendons, and ligaments in your hips and knees to the other parts of your body, including parts of the circulatory system. More than that, it helps you carry ...

Angulated fractures involve a broken bone that tilts at an angle. Most cases require some form of realignment using a cast or other measures for proper healing. An angulated fracture occurs when a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 26-year-old man who was in a motorcycle crash arrived at the ED with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3T.

A hemiarthroplasty is a partial hip replacement used to treat a hip fracture. Rarely, it may also be used to treat a hip damaged by arthritis. Your hip joint is often described as a “ball-in-socket” ...

Pipkin classification is a subclassification of the Thompson and Epstein type V fracture dislocation. It describes a posterior dislocation with fracture of the femoral head. There are four types ...

In severe osteoarthritis there is extensive deformation of the femoral head, usually combined with varus and torsion of the femoral neck. 16 Unless these are corrected, the faulty mechanical use of ...

Needham, MA. - JBJS Case Connector, an online case report journal published by The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, has issued a 'Watch' regarding the rare but potentially catastrophic fracture of ...