Sentences with phrase «with fractured bones»

Not exact matches

Joseph Lister was further convinced when he noticed that people with simple fractures (bone does not break the skin) usually lived while those with compound fractures (bone breaks the skin) usually died.

But Trestman can only do so much with the wounded Young at quarterback; two early - season injuries, a fractured pubic bone and a pulled groin, plus two concussions in the last three games, have rendered him tentative and vulnerable and have thrown off the offense's delicate timing.

In a spring training game Johnson fractured the lower left orbital bone of San Francisco Giants first baseman J.T. Snow with one of his don't - get - too - comfortable heaters.

After missing the Philadelphia 76ers» last 10 games with an orbital bone fracture, Joel Embiid made his return in a big way, picking up 23 points and 7 rebounds in the team's Game 3 win over the Miami Heat.

In its efforts to diagnose microfractures and abnormal bone that would predispose a horse to a full - blown fracture, researchers at the Equine Sports Medicine Program at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine have been using scintigraphy, a technique in which a horse is injected with a radioactive isotope that isolates skeletal «hot spots» — places where injured bone is rebuilding itself.

The other night, in a game with the Celtics, Pettit fractured the ulna bone in his left forearm and will wear a special light cast the remainder of the season.

With the feeling in his feet deadened, Walton had no way of knowing that he was placing too much stress on them; as a consequence, Daly believes, the tarsal navicular bone in his left foot fractured.

Gradually developing aching pain with activity over the bones of the foot, shin, or hip that persist may represent a stress fracture.

He also persevered with running despite getting shin splints (micro fractures in your leg bones... most likely due to poor running shoes).

Then he suggested to consult orthopedic doctor, and the orthopedic told that babies never get fractured as there bones are like elastic and he suggested with the same medicine.

Recent research demonstrates that lactating women have an earlier return to prepregnant weight, 41 delayed resumption of ovulation with increased child spacing,42 - 44 improved bone remineralization postpartum45 with reduction in hip fractures in the postmenopausal period, 46 and reduced risk of ovarian cancer47 and premenopausal breast cancer.48

If a bone in the forearm or wrist is fractured, use a folded newspaper or magazine padded with a towel or small pillow to create a splint that immobilizes and protects the broken bone.

Denosumab (Prolia ®, Xgeva ®) reversed cortical bone loss and increased bone mineral density, lowering wrist fracture rates in women with osteoporosis, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston.

«Denosumab reverses bone loss, lowers wrist fracture rates in women with osteoporosis.»

With two additional years of denusomab treatment, their bone mineral density increased further and the wrist fracture rate declined to levels significantly lower than the FREEDOM placebo rate (rate ratio = 0.57, 95 % CI = 0.34 - 0.95; p = 0.03).

Our immune system can fight off infections, our blood clots so that we don't bleed to death with every cut, tissues regenerate and bone fractures heal, if imperfectly, over time.

Researchers at New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry) have described a new target that may open the door to developing therapies for preventing bone fractures in people with type 2 diabetes.

That's because hospitals are equipped with powerful new scanning machines primarily used to identify tumors, ballooning blood vessels, bone fractures, and a wide range of disorders in people.

As more and more patients successfully manage diabetes with drugs that increase their insulin sensitivity, doctors and researchers have observed a serious problem: The drugs seem to decrease the activity of cells that produce bone, leaving patients prone to fractures and osteoporosis.

Investigators in the ACTIVE trial previously found that that the drug reduces fractures and increases bone mineral density in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.

With the pointy tip such a fractured fragment would likely produce, this bone might have been used to puncture other materials.

Bone tumors cause great pain, promote fractures and ultimately represent the main cause of morbidity, with a 70 percent incidence documented by autopsies, according to Gabriela Loots, an LLNL biomedical scientists and an associate adjunct professor at UC Merced.

Leeper and collaborators at OSU and Iowa State University compared 64 dogs with osteosarcoma against two control groups: 30 dogs that had suffered traumatic bone fractures and 31 healthy dogs similar in age and weight to the animals with cancer.

During almost 4 years of observations, the researchers found that women with one copy of s had a 40 % higher risk of wrist, hip, and other bone fractures.

Women with two copies of s fared even worse: They had bones that were 4 % less dense — and faced a 280 % higher risk of fracture — than did women without any s alleles, says team member Andre Uitterlinden, a molecular geneticist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

«Researchers once thought obesity was protective of bone because with more body mass, individuals have more bone mass; more bone mass typically decreases risk of osteoporosis and associated fractures,» said Pam Hinton, an associate professor in the MU Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology.

Twenty - six patients had no infection, but reported other complications such as problems with the orthopaedic hardware, problems with skin and soft tissue, or fracture of the femur bone.

«Orthopaedic Care of Patients with Fragility Fractures» recommends that physicians proactively screen, monitor, and if necessary, assist in getting treatment for all elderly and other at - risk patients for osteoporosis following an initial bone fracture to prevent subsequent fFractures» recommends that physicians proactively screen, monitor, and if necessary, assist in getting treatment for all elderly and other at - risk patients for osteoporosis following an initial bone fracture to prevent subsequent fracturesfractures.

«These women with healthier diets didn't lose bone as quickly as those with high - inflammation diets, and this is important because after menopause women see a drastic loss in bone density that contributes to fractures,» Orchard said.

During operations, surgeons mix the powder with a saline solution to form a putty - like material that they smear into the gap between the fractured bones.

Women who suffer such fractures should undergo bone mineral density testing, and women with a bone mineral density T - score of equal to or less than -1.0 should be diagnosed as having osteoporosis, they write.

Dr Emmanuel Biver MD, Department of Bone Diseases, University Hospital of Geneva, stated, «These results show lower aBMD and altered bone microstructure in postmenopausal women with prevalent ankle or forearm fractBone Diseases, University Hospital of Geneva, stated, «These results show lower aBMD and altered bone microstructure in postmenopausal women with prevalent ankle or forearm fractbone microstructure in postmenopausal women with prevalent ankle or forearm fracture.

Charles Cohen, the chairman of the company, explains that the compound is being tested against traditional grafts, in which surgeons bridge non-union fractures with fragments of bone taken from the patient's hip.

For seniors over the age of 65, taking a daily supplement of vitamin D with calcium — but not vitamin D alone — can offer some protection against the risk of common bone fractures, according to an updated review from The Cochrane Library.

But the fit is poor, with less than 40 per cent of the prosthesis in contact with the bone, and the force surgeons use sometimes causes the femur to fracture.

«Vitamin D with calcium may prevent bone fractures for high - risk seniors.»

... Finally, this study draws attention to the need for large controlled clinical trials to determine if a combination of fall prevention strategies and treatment with bone - active drugs might produce additive benefits on fractures, especially in high - risk populations such as those living in nursing homes.

A new study published today in The Lancet reveals that a simple questionnaire, combined with bone mineral density measurements for some, would help identify those at risk of hip fracture.

... It would be premature to use this study to immediately modify our clinical use of potent bone - active agents in the nursing home population with documented osteoporosis (i.e. those who have a low BMD as a major risk factor for fracture).

Researchers attributed this to a surgical technique that entailed stabilizing the broken bones with screws and restoring the fracture to the correct alignment and normal anatomical position.

Osteoporosis is primarily characterized by a depletion of bone mineral mass, but when combined with alterations in bone architecture results in greater bone fragility and increased fracture risks.

But a small group of experts now says that the fracture patterns on the bones, found during highway construction near San Diego, California, must have been left by humans pounding them with stones found nearby.

«Ensuring that children with low birth weights have a diet rich in calcium, vitamin D and protein, in combination with exercise that involves weight - bearing physical activities may help reduce risk of bone fractures later in life,» Balasuriya said.

In addition to its more obvious ills, type 2 diabetes is a condition closely associated with bone fractures, increasing the risk of fractures twofold.

To investigate this, teams from Oslo University Hospital and Hospital del Mar - IMIM of Autonomous University, Barcelona, examined 41 Norwegian and 46 Spanish women, all of whom had normal bone mineral density (BMD) values, no clinical or morphometric vertebral fractures, no detectable signs of secondary osteoporosis and no use of drugs with known influence on bone metabolism.

«Hormone therapy helps reduce curvature of the spine: The risk of developing age - related kyphosis declines with hormone therapy, which has been proven to reverse bone loss and to help prevent vertebral fractures.»

Older people with an age - related loss of muscle mass and strength may be at greater risk of falling and bone fractures, according to new research led by the University of Southampton.

If you were to take a group of people who were at higher risk of breaking a bone — so had about a 15 per cent chance of breaking a bone over the next 10 years — and treated all of them with a reasonable dose of vitamin D for a decade, you'd prevent a fracture in around one in 50 of them over that time.»

Given that hyperkyphosis is also associated with bone loss and vertebral fractures, the authors of the article «Patterns of menopausal hormone therapy use and hyperkyphosis in older women» hypothesized that HT may also be effective in helping prevent exaggerated spine curvature, sometimes called dowager's hump.

Moreover, treatment with a drug that paralyzed the muscles surrounding the fracture prevented normal bone growth and bone realignment, suggesting that muscle contraction plays a critical role in the repair process.