A new grant from the National Institutes of Health is supporting work led by UD mechanical engineer Michael Hast and his graduate students Farzad Abdi and Badhan Saha to improve methods to monitor ...

Healing a broken bone can take months, and knowing whether recovery is on track often takes just as long. Doctors typically rely on periodic X-rays, capturing two-dimensional images to see how the ...

Smoking is implicated in a host of physical problems, from cardiovascular disease to lung disorders. Many of us probably don't think about smoking's effects on orthopaedic conditions, but several ...

Some painkillers may delay, or event prevent, bones healing say scientists. A US study found that when rats were given non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), their broken bones healed more ...

Research at UNC Hospitals has produced promising results for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have bone fractures that wil not heal. An estimated 600,000 people suffer from unhealed bone ...

Generally, tendon injuries are caused due to trauma or gradual wear and tear from overuse or aging. Structurally, tendons—as well as their associated extracellular matrices—are comprised of ...

A medical research team at Saarland University, led by Professor Bergita Ganse, has discovered a new approach to monitoring bone fracture healing by measuring blood supply to the tissue at the ...

Tiny implantable sensors are being developed to help heal broken bones quicker. The devices allow data-enabled resistance training to speed up the natural healing process in lab rats, say American ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson found evidence that a drug that improves the ability to walk in people with multiple sclerosis can also make bone fractures heal ...