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 ...

Mechanical engineers designed a 3D-printed femur that could help doctors prepare for surgeries to repair bones and develop treatments for bone tumors. The study, which focused on the middle section of ...

Of particular concern are hip fractures as they carry a high death rate, especially since the elderly often have multiple ...

Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is a disorder defined by the aseptic ischemic necrosis of osseous tissue in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Rafael J. Sierra, MD, discusses the importance of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The patient is a 74-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension who initially presented to an ...

Femoral head bones of different species illustrating the size range in the hominin lineage. From top to bottom: Australopithecus afarensis (4-3 million years; ~40 kg, 130 cm); Homo ergaster (1.9-1.4 ...

SMA children who can't walk have weaker upper leg bones than kids with cerebral palsy who are nonambulatory, a comparative ...