An external pelvic fixator is a surgical procedure that stabilizes a broken hip or pelvic bone. A surgeon will use small screws, pins, and carbon fiber bars to stabilize the fracture. Doctors may use ...

DENVER (CBS4) - A woman from South Dakota is thrilled to be walking again and without pain. She credits two Denver doctors who repaired her badly damaged pelvis. They used screws, cement and a cutting ...

Reconstructing the pelvis with part of a patient’s thigh bone, following tumour removal, offers a promising alternative to current techniques. A team led by orthopaedic surgeon, Zhaoming Ye, director ...

November 23, 2021 – Total hip replacement may affect the development of a type of pelvic stress fracture, sacral insufficiency fracture (SIF), suggests a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

To quantify the problem, Sponseller performed three-dimensional CT scans on all of his cerebral palsy patients undergoing scoliosis surgery over one year. All 27 patients had asymmetric pelvises with ...

On December 22nd of 2023, a Vietnamese patient underwent hours-long surgery in order to remove part of his pelvis and femur, as per the usual treatment for bone cancer. What was special here was that ...

Diagnosed with a rare bone cancer in 2023, Tracy Bacenas faced a difficult recovery after surgery. Fortunately, a 3D pelvic ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SI-BONE, Inc., (Nasdaq: SIBN), a Silicon Valley-based medical device company dedicated to providing surgical solutions for sacropelvic disorders, ...

Sacralization is a condition where the base of your spine has fused to the top of your pelvis. Your bottom vertebra is called the L5 lumbar vertebra. It’s joined to your sacrum, the upper ridge of ...