This content was created by our physicians and experts. With each step you take, forces equal to 3 to 8 times your body weight travel between the femur (thighbone) and tibia (shin bone) in your knee.

Bone transport can often be used to close soft tissue defects reducing the need for free tissue transfer. This is a 41 year old, healthy male who suffered a severe tibial injury at sea. He presented ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow projectiles for hunting, had been uncovered in excavations ...

Brinker MR, Hanus BD, Sen M, O’Connor DP: The devastating effects of tibial nonunion on health-related quality of life. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2013;95(24):2170-2176. Wood JH, Conway JD Advanced concepts ...