Knee ligament damage is an injury all to common to sportsmen and women. The solution usually involves replacing the torn ligament with a piece of tendon from the leg, which is fixed to the bone by ...

Most modern broken bones are healed with the help of titanium screws and plates that sometimes must be removed afterward. But researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and ...

Titanium screws may soon be a thing of the past as researchers in Germany unveil medical screws that promote bone growth into the implant itself so as not to leave holes. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. In rats, bone screws made out of silk can fasten broken bones together just as well as metal and ...

NEW YORK One member of that team, Khalid Lafdi, knows about broken bones firsthand. Two years ago, Lafdi, an avid runner broke his ankle. "I heard 'pop,'" said Lafdi, a professor of mechanical ...

The screw utilizes the superelastic properties of Nitinol to allow higher levels of compression than contemporary bone screws. During manufacturing, the screw is stretched and held in an elongated ...

Surgeons have used metal screws to reassemble broken bones for years, but there are drawbacks: if the metal corrodes, they’ve gotta come out. Biodegradable screws aren’t as strong, and can cause ...

To heal broken bones using medical help, the surgical method of choice for decades have been metal screws, mainly made of titanium or stainless steel. During and after the healing process, these metal ...

A silk screw isn’t as stiff as a metal one, and that may be important for putting bones back together. Implanting the silk screws into rats’ hind limbs showed that the material could successfully pin ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has announced a final order to classify the screw sleeve bone fixation device into class II with special ...