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  2. – Basketball injury
  3. – Bone fracture
  4. – Bone structure
  5. – Brittle bones
  6. – Bursitis
  7. – Carpal tunnel
  8. – Chronic pain
  9. – Fallen arches
  10. – Heel spurs
  11. – Hip fracture
  12. – Hip replacement
  13. – Joint overuse
  14. – Knee replacement
  15. – Osteoarthritis
  16. – Osteopenia
  17. – Osteoperosis
  18. – Pediatric Orthopedics
  19. – Repetitive trauma
  20. – Restless leg syndrome
  21. – Rheumatoid Arthritis
  22. – Sciatica
  23. – Slipped disc
  24. – Sprains and strains
  25. – Stress fractures
  26. – TMJ disorder

Stem Cell Cartilage Offers Hope to Osteoarthritis Sufferers

Cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory may one day repair damaged knees, according to research from UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering. Lead author, Kyriacos Athanasiou and his team used adult stem cells from bone marrow and skin as well as human embryonic stem cells to grow cartilage tissue in the lab. Now they are experimenting with various chemical and mechanical stimuli to improve its...  ( Read more about Stem Cell Cartilage Offers Hope to Osteoarthritis Sufferers )

Getting Sun During Pregnancy May Strengthen Baby's Bones

When women get more sun during the last months of their pregnancies, their babies are likely to have stronger, healthier bones, a benefit that may last their whole lives, a recent study found. The study, conducted in Britain and reported in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, examined bone scans on almost 7,000 10-year-olds.
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Green Tea May Help Strengthen Bones

Green tea, one of the most popular drinks around the world, may benefit bone health, according to new research from Hong Kong. Researchers suggest it has the potential to help prevent and treat osteoporosis and other bone diseases suffered by millions of people worldwide.
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Inhibiting a Protein Prevents Bone Loss

A new drug inhibits a protein necessary for the formation and function of cells that break down bone, a recent study showed, a development that may have important repercussions for the treatment of diseases that involve bone loss, such as osteoporosis, periodontitis and arthritis.
   
The study, which was performed on mice by Soo-young Lee and colleagues at Ewha Women’s...  ( Read more about Inhibiting a Protein Prevents Bone Loss )

Discovery Hints At the Immune System's Role in Bone Loss

A new study out of UCLA links high cholesterol and osteoporosis and identifies a new role that the body's immune cells play in bone loss. Published in the Journal Clinical Immunology, the research could lead to immune-based approaches for treating osteoporosis. The disease causes fragile bones and increases the risk of fractures, causing lost independence and mobility.
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Drug May Cut Bone Healing Time in Half

A drug that was cleared by the government as a treatment for osteoporosis has demonstrated an ability to help bone fractures in older people heal as quickly as in the young, by stimulating the activity and production of stem cells, according to a preliminary study.  ( Read more about Drug May Cut Bone Healing Time in Half )

Source of Out-of-Control Bone Growth Discovered

A condition in which there is radically abnormal bone growth stems from bone-forming cells that line blood vessels deep within skeletal muscle tissue, not, as would have been expected, from muscle stem cells, according to a recent study. It also showed that cells involved in the body’s immune response to inflammation unleash bone-producing proteins that convert muscle into bone.Source of Out-of-Control Bone Growth Discovered )

Moderate Drinking Seems to Improve Bone Density

Drinking a glass or two of wine or beer a day appears to build bone density even better than calcium does, a recent study demonstrated – though drinking more, and consuming spirits instead of low-alcohol drinks, has the opposite effect.


The research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was done by Katherine Tucker of Tufts University in Boston and her colleagues.

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"Fracture Putty" Envisioned for Shattered Leg Bones

A biomedical engineering team is forming to develop what would be a revolutionary self-hardening putty made of bioactive nanoporous silicon that could be molded to any shape in order to repair crushed or shattered leg bones.
   
The special property of nanoporous silicon is that it’s riddled with millions of infinitesimally tiny tunnels and so can serve as a scaffold for the...  ( Read more about "Fracture Putty" Envisioned for Shattered Leg Bones )

Synthetic Bone May Assist Implant Surgery

British scientists have created a dissolvable ceramic bone substitute that, through a technique for building automobile catalytic converters, can be made highly porous so that natural bone cells can infiltrate it and use it as scaffolding for regrowing actual bone. The new material, which is expected to be especially helpful to patients facing bone-implant surgery, was developed at the University of Warwick...  ( Read more about Synthetic Bone May Assist Implant Surgery )

Dr. Carlos F. Smith, DPM, PC


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