Stress fractures are tiny bone cracks from repetitive stress, not a single break. Athletes, military recruits, and those starting new exercise routines are at higher risk. Pain worsens with activity ...

UD engineer Michael Hast leads an NIH-funded effort to identify impaired bone healing earlier with MRI-based computer models Healing a broken bone can take months, and knowing whether recovery is on ...

Penn Medicine researchers unveiled in a recently published paper that a type of stem cell originating in skeletal muscle cells can turn into bone. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...