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Ultrasound after tibial fracture surgery does not speed up healing or improve function

Receiving ultrasound after surgery to repair a fractured tibia (shinbone) does not accelerate healing or improve functional recovery compared with sham treatment, finds a trial. Receiving ultrasound ...
Healio

Vitamin D3 provides no healing benefits for patients with tibia and femur fractures

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vitamin D3 supplementation showed no improvement in clinical or radiographic fracture healing in adult patients ...
Healio

Intramedullary nail diameter to canal diameter ratio determined healing of tibial shaft fractures

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . To optimize healing after intramedullary nailing of extra-articular tibial shaft fractures, recently published ...
NBC Sports

Paige Bueckers suffered tibial plateau fracture, may miss up to 2 months

STORRS, Conn. -- UConn star Paige Bueckers suffered a fracture just below her left knee and will be sidelined for up to two months, the school said Tuesday. Last season’s women’s college basketball ...
University of Delaware

Engineering a clearer view of bone healing

UD engineer Michael Hast leads an NIH-funded effort to identify impaired bone healing earlier with MRI-based computer models Healing a broken bone can take months, and knowing whether recovery is on ...
BMJ

Surgical versus conservative treatment for high-risk stress fractures of the lower leg (anterior tibial cortex, navicular and fifth metatarsal base): a systematic review

3 The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to Dr Wouter H Mallee, Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam, Department of ...