Screening tibia shaft fracture patients for nonunion risks and addressing nonunions in a timely manner, may not only free up scarce healthcare resources and save healthcare dollars, but also ...

Background Tibia shaft fractures (TSF) are common for men and women and cause substantial morbidity, healthcare use, and costs. The impact of nonunions on healthcare use and costs is poorly described.

Tibial tubercle osteotomy with vs. without distalization yielded low rates of postoperative complications. Both techniques yielded similar rates of arthrofibrosis, nonunion and reoperation.

In cases of unhealthy soft tissue at the anterior tibia, ORIF surgery on the tibia distal segment can cause increased rates of nonunion, deep infections (Sirkin et al., 2004), and surgical wound ...

India: A recent randomized comparative pilot study, published online in Apollo Medicine has highlighted the potential of ...

Days after boosting its top wages to more than $30 an hour for most nonunion U.S. store employees, Costco Warehouse reached an agreement with its union workers, the Teamsters said Saturday.

Wolff’s Law states that bone grows and remodels in response to the forces that are placed upon it in a healthy person. After an injury to a bone, placing specific stress in specific directions to the ...

Some BSIs occur at locations prone to healing delays, non-union and/or complete fracture. Example locations include the anterior cortex of the tibia, neck of femur and tarsal navicular, to name a few.

Costco announced that all employees at its non-union stores will get a pay raise, just a day before employees at its 50 unionized locations are set to go on strike, according to Bloomberg.

Engineers union at Boeing investigates allegations that company is moving work to non-union locations SPEEA members raised concerns after Boeing started issuing layoff notices in November Union ...