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 ...

Intramedullary Nailing, Implant Failure, Long Bone Fractures, Subtrochanteric Fracture, Systematic Review Oyagbesan, O.S.

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 ...

When you fracture a bone, the injury sets off a very intricate and lengthy healing process. Bones are tough, but they’re not able to heal from a fracture in a day, a week, or even a month. It takes ...

A tibial plateau fracture is a break at the top of the tibia bone in the shin, which is often due to high energy trauma. Tibial plateau fractures can cause swelling, pain, and, in severe cases, loss ...

When you first break a bone, the body sends out an inflammatory response, and cells begin to form a hematoma around the injured area. Within a week or two, that blood clot is replaced with a soft ...

The sponsor identified 3 economic studies, all in UK settings. Taylor et al. (2009) carried out a cost-effectiveness analysis on non-union tibial fractures treated by EXOGEN or by surgery ...

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 ...

NICE has assessed the EXOGEN ultrasound bone healing system to help the NHS decide whether to use this product. The EXOGEN ultrasound bone healing system delivers low-intensity pulsed ultrasound to ...