Inflammation that doesn’t go away can change the structure of your spine. And if you have ankylosing spondylitis (AS), there’s about a 5% to 15% chance you may have a spinal fracture at some point in ...

SPINE fracture checks will be added to OAP bone scans on the NHS to try and catch tens of thousands of breaks earlier. An ...

Spine checks will be added to routine bone scans on the NHS to find hidden fractures. The measure could help osteoporosis ...

Around 70% of spine fractures caused by osteoporosis currently go undiagnosed.

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - At first glance, Waco resident Kaytlin Gordon appears as a normal 26-year-old. But the single mother of two has been battling an undiagnosed and rare spinal problem for over a ...

Clinicians should carry out a straightforward spine check during routine bone scans to help detect osteoporosis problems ...

Osteoporosis makes bones brittle, and that includes spines. There are about 700,000 spine fractures every year in the U.S. About two-thirds of them go undiagnosed. Three out of four spine fractures ...

In 18 cases, a low energy injury of the spine occurred and in only 2 cases the cause was a high-energy injury (table 2). The fractures occurred in the cervical spine were compression injuries. C6 and ...

Victims of intimate partner violence with suicidal behavior have characteristic injury patterns on medical imaging, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of ...

Running, fishing, raising horses... nothing could stop Mary Ann Weyer, foster mom of six. "I didn't have any worries about health," she told Ivanhoe. Then one day, everything changed. "It happened so ...

According to the Mayo Clinic, Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare neurological disorder where the immune system ...