After drilling into her left femur bone, doctors inserted a small ... taking cartilage from an undamaged part of the knee and ...

In today's world, more people suffer from bone problems caused by injuries, infections, or birth defects. As the population ...

As you age, the cartilage that helps cushion the ends of bones in the knee joint can wear thin and ... More serious tears often require surgery to either repair the tear or trim off the damaged ...

But sometimes, there are 208. The fabella, a small bone in a tendon behind the knee, was lost over the course of early human evolution, but these days it’s becoming more common, according to a study ...

She hopes that future applications will include the ability to help implant both synthetic cartilage and bone in the knee.

Patrick Peavy, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Birmingham-based OrthoAlabama Spine & Sports, performed the first Oxford Cementless Partial Knee replacement surgery in Alabama. The FDA-approved procedure ...