Bone stimulators are a therapy that may help with bone healing in certain situations. However, the debate is still out on their effectiveness. Devices such as bone stimulators are often used for ...

Electrical stimulation therapy is a recent, popular alternative treatment. Bone growth stimulators are sometimes used for fractures that haven’t healed on their own. After treatment, your body works ...

The application of electric and electromagnetic fields to aid in soft tissue and fracture healing arose from the initial observations of Yasuda, Bassett and Becker, which showed that bone tissue ...

Historically, osteochondral lesions of the talus were treated with debridement with or without bone marrow stimulation ...

Q: Three miles into a track workout I felt a sharp pain on the top of my foot. After a mile, I had to stop and could barely walk. The next day I was diagnosed with a second metatarsal stress fracture.

My $5,000 foot is almost 70 years old. Free advice (Once you have bought this paper!): Don’t break a bone in your foot. If you have simple foot pain, avoid an Emergency Department if at all possible.

Institutional Review Board approval and informed consent were obtained from all subjects. Forty healthy subjects between the ages of 50 and 80 years participated in the study. Half of the subjects ...