Commonly referred to as the heel bone ... also called a compound fracture. An open fracture of the calcaneus is an emergency ...

CTIBL causes bone fragility and an increased susceptibility to fractures; therefore, prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of CTIBL are essential to decrease the risk of fracture. Bone loss ...

The paper, titled “Update on the Role of Bone Turnover Markers in the Diagnosis and Management of Osteoporosis”, reassesses the clinical utility of BTMs in predicting fracture risk ... to ...

P.C. ANSWER: The FRAX score is a way of combining a person’s measured bone density with clinical risk factors like age, sex and weight to provide an estimate of the fracture risk. Most ...