Tibia in Medical News

The 'Other' Cruciate Ligament: Newer Treatments for PCL Tears

... Traditional: One-bundle bone graft passed through a tunnel in the tibia (shin bone). One-bundle grafts are made thicker than two-bundle grafts, ... is an approach whereby a graft is screwed into the back of the tibia avoiding a tunnel through the front of the tibia. ...

Repair ACL Injuries in Young Athletes Quickly

... known as the ACL, that helps to anchor the knee. The piece of tissue "prevents the lower leg from gliding forward, preventing forward motion of the tibia on the femur," explained Dr. Lyle Micheli, a professor of orthopedic sports medicine at Harvard Medical School. A variety of activities that ...

Emerging Techniques Put a New Twist on Ankle Repair

... from the knee and implanting it over the ankle injury, or "lesion." This requires an operation on the knee and cutting the bone (osteotomy) of the tibia to accommodate the graft. As a result, these traditional techniques involve potential problems, including: pain in the donor knee ...

Artificial Ankle Takes Giant Step Forward

... little Rubik's cube." The STAR ankle, which costs $9,850 for the device alone, is basically a flat piece of metal extending across the end of the tibia bone and held in place by two "barrels" drilled into the bone. Metal bearings move across a piece of high-density polyethylene placed between the two ...

The FDA has approved ankle replacements, so why don't all insurance plans cover them?

... so the ankle joint is bone-on-bone. An ankle replacement is similar to a knee or hip replacement. An implant is attached to the bottom of the tibia (shinbone) and to the talus (the first large bone of the foot). The smooth plastic surface of the tibial implant rotates on the polished metal ...

Accumulated Lead May Affect Older Women's Brains

... such as gasoline during the 1980s, so that lead is at a relatively low level today. So, only those women with lead biomarkers found in their tibia bone, an indication of long-ago exposure, scored poorly enough to be considered statistically significant, according to the study. The study, ...

NovaLign(TM) Orthopaedics, Inc. Announces its First 510(K) Clearance From the FDA for New Intramedullary Fixation System

... market its Intramedullary Fixation System, a new system of implants and instruments for the treatment of long bone fractures, including the humerus, tibia and femur. This regulatory clearance allows NovaLign(TM) to enter the intramedullary fracture fixation market, estimated to be $700 million in the ...

Southern California Dentist First on the West Coast to Perform Concentrated Stem Cell Transplant for Dental Implant Procedure

... in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. Used for many years by neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons to generate bone for procedures such as spinal and tibia fusions, Dr. Ho will apply the stem cell transplant procedure to dental applications to provide an option for patients who may not have previously ...

Stem Cells Might Treat Tough Fractures

... of these cells, which means they can't heal properly, the researchers explained. The UNC team used adult stem cells to heal fractures of the tibia (the long bone of the leg) in mice. The bone marrow-derived stem cells were engineered to express insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), which help ...

Novel model of osteosarcoma

... results from the dysregulated growth of osteoblasts (the cells that form the bone matrix). It primarily develops near the ends of the femur, tibia or humerus, and is usually diagnosed during adolescence, when the long bones of the body are undergoing rapid growth. While the precise causes of ...

Bad to the bone: UD research to shed light on osteoporosis

... when a bone is at rest and when it is at work. A high-powered laser-scanning microscope will be used to assess the movement of molecules in the tibia of an anesthetized mouse. A harmless green fluorescent dye, tagged to various-sized proteins, signaling molecules and cell nutrients, will be ...

Drugstore in the dirt

... a German physician and scientist who used white clay from Germany to treat a deadly form of Asian cholera; diphtheria; gangrene; ulcers of the tibia (a bone between the knee and foot); and the skin disease eczema. ...

The impact of physical activity on weight-bearing knee joint

... Recruited from an established community-based research population, the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study, subjects all underwent MRI exams on the tibia bone and tibiofemoral joint of their dominant kneethe one on the leg they first step forward when walking. MRI was used to assess cartilage defects ...

FDA Approves INFUSE Bone Graft for Use in Dentistry

... Bone Graft had been previously approved by the FDA as a replacement for autograft in spinal fusion procedures and for use in treatment of open tibia fractures. "FDA approval of INFUSE marks a major step forward in the future of implant dentistry" comments Dr. Andrei Mark of Central Park Oral ...

Varying Weight Training Intensity Ups Growth Hormone in Women

... known as immunoassays. Immunoassays are the tests physiologists have traditionally used in such studies. The researchers added a third test, the tibia line rat growth assay, to detect the biological action of the hormones, a novel approach to the study of growth hormones in exercise. Type of ...

Shapelier Knee Replacements for Women

... stairs, sitting in a chair, gardening and golfing. The knee joint is composed of three bones: the end of the femur (thighbone), the top of the tibia (shinbone) and the patella (kneecap), which are all held together by tendons and ligaments and cushioned by cartilage. Knees can become painful, due ...

Hope After Spinal Cord Injuries

... University of Iowa used a computer-controlled device that delivered defined, measurable doses of load, approxmately1.5 times the body weight to the tibia of one leg of each participant. Normal exercise principles were followed, training the targeted muscle and bone close to20 to 30 minutes each day, ...

New combined therapy for Knee Joint pain

... tibio femoral joint. In front of these bones the patella which slides up and down to form patellofemoral joint. In th ejoint between this femur and tibia certain space should be maintained. This gap is maintained by two groups of muscles which cross the knee joint. Quadriceps is one group of muscle ...