Learn about our Editorial Policies. Textbooks will tell you that the human body contains 206 bones. But sometimes, there are 208. The fabella, a small bone in a tendon behind the knee, was lost over ...

These injuries are in no particular order. Any of the bones in or around the knee can be fractured. The most commonly broken bone in the joint is the patella or kneecap. High impact trauma ...

Jay Parker found himself at a standstill, quite literally, in his early 60s when the arthritis in his right knee began to worsen over just a couple of years. “It sort of limited me,” he said. “I ...

Following Joel Embiid's season-ending knee injury, the Sixers might have no choice but to run this same core back next year ...

If a person has a loose piece of cartilage or bone that is causing the knee to lock, they may require surgery to remove it. A doctor will also recommend treatment for any underlying conditions ...

Dentists shave down the tooth and put a cap on it,” says Dr. Adam Sassoon, a hip and knee surgeon at UCLA Health. “That’s similar to what we do with the femur (thigh bone), tibia (shin bone ...

“Two weeks after the accident, I took the cast off for the first time to shower, looked down at my knee and fainted,” Tom Gloag pauses to let out an embarrassed laugh. “I’d never fainted ...

This pain may result when soccer players strain their patellar tendon, which connects the kneecap to the lower leg bone, the quadricep ... in controlling the knee cap and treating anterior knee ...

as reported by the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. "We use a device called a Mako to do that," said Dr. Grunkemeyer. His team demonstrated the Mako robotic knee replacement system at Kentucky's ...