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A presenter at the Orthopaedic Trauma Association Annual Meeting said calcaneal avulsion fractures treated at a level 1 trauma center had a 60% complication rate.

Results showed most intermediate-term reoperations after ankle open reduction and internal fixation were due to isolated implant removal.

New guidelines may be in order for evaluating and treating lower extremity pain. Investigators set out to determine if there was a relation between foot pain and lower extremity joint pain, and they found a significant association between foot pain and knee or hip pain.

There's excitement in the medical community over a breakthrough treatment now being offered in Northeast Wisconsin in an effort to "kill the pill" and prevent drug addiction.

Studies suggest that using more than one type of pain medicine to target different pain pathways has been shown to decrease pain while reducing side effects of knee replacement surgery.

Smith and Nephew has announced the launch of its groundbreaking new Journey II XR bi-cruciate retaining total knee system, with the first implants having already taken place.

A new study attributes a surge in dislocated knees to the U.S. obesity epidemic.

Every week, an average of three in every ten adolescent elite athletes suffer an injury. Worst affected are young women, and the risk of injury increases with low self-esteem, especially in combination with less sleep and higher training volume and intensity, research from in Sweden shows.

For patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, a minimally invasive procedure called cooled radiofrequency ablation (CRFA) provides better pain reduction and functional improvement compared to steroid injection of the knee, concludes a study.

Retired professional footballers are far more prone to develop knee pain and osteoarthritis and face problems with their knees earlier in life than the average person, a study has revealed.