THE medical literature of the past ten years contains many reports of injurious side effects of systemic corticosteroid therapy. 1–4 Osteoporosis and resulting vertebral fractures are almost the only ...

A Yale Medicine orthopedic surgeon has developed an innovative procedure that uses a patient's own stem cells to treat a condition that can cause painful hip fractures. The condition, called avascular ...

The talus is the part ankle that allows the foot to move in all different directions. High impact injuries like falls, or traffic accidents can cause the talus bone to be fractured, and a high ...

Core decompression surgery is a newer surgical procedure compared with standard total hip replacement, and it has shown promising results. 11 Unfortunately, the disadvantage of this procedure is that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with avascular necrosis of the humeral head, reverse total shoulder arthroplasty resulted in ...

Doctors report rising hip replacements among young Indians post-COVID, linking steroid use and avascular necrosis to severe joint damage.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- When you think of hip replacement, you probably picture an elderly person having surgery after taking a nasty fall. But young people can also need hip replacement because of a ...

Hip pain could be avascular necrosis, a condition where reduced blood supply causes bone tissue to die. It may eventually lead to the collapse of the hip joint and serious mobility issues.

Dear Doctors: My mom is 61. She started having hip pain and figured it meant a hip replacement surgery at some point in the future. When she saw her doctor, the tests showed osteonecrosis, and the ...