Comminuted Fractures – What are they?

Comminuted Fractures – What are they?

Comminuted fractures are a form of fractured bone. A comminuted fracture occurs when a bone fractures into three or more pieces. Comminuted fractures are caused by significant traumas such as vehicle accidents. These often necessitate surgery and take longer to heal...
Understanding Rickets

Understanding Rickets

Rickets is a softening and weakening of the bones in children caused by a severe and sustained vitamin D deficiency. Rare hereditary disorders can also result in rickets. Vitamin D aids your child’s absorption of calcium and phosphorus from his or her meals. A...
Paget’s Disease of the bone: Symptoms and Causes

Paget’s Disease of the bone: Symptoms and Causes

Paget’s disease of the bone disrupts your body’s natural recycling mechanism, in which new bone tissue progressively replaces old bone tissue. Over time, bones can become brittle and deformed. Most typically affected areas include the pelvis, head, spine,...
Tips to keep your Bone Health protected

Tips to keep your Bone Health protected

Bones serve a variety of functions in the body, including structural support, organ protection, muscle anchoring, and calcium storage. While it is critical to have strong and healthy bones in infancy and adolescence, you may also protect bone health in maturity. Your...