This week we will be discussing the specific injury called an “avulsion fracture.” Avulsion fractures are different than long bone fractures and different than other forms of traumatic bone ...

Your kneecap, or patella, is a sesamoid bone ... How to Recover From Injury and Thrive. “This type of bone is loaded when the muscle or tendon it lives in is loaded—the more loading, the ...

When people see their foot x-rays for the first time, they usually ask, what are those two little bones floating under my big toe? Are they normal? Are they in ...

Two bones at the back of the fetlock, known as the sesamoid bones ... much like any other tendon or ligament injury. Success rates have typically been poor, however, which has led to the creation ...

Bulls forward Chandler Hutchison sustained an acute injury to a sesamoid bone in his right foot in the game vs. Atlanta on Jan. 23. He will be placed in a walking boot for 2-4 weeks, and will be ...

How Injuries Happen Let’s look at the impact of the above-mentioned intense weight load on a racing Thoroughbred’s fetlocks. “The body adapts to this extreme loading by increasing the ...

Broken bones (also called fractures ... and tendons (which connect bones to muscles). But in children, ligaments and tendons are relatively stronger than bone or cartilage. As a result, injuries ...