This week, we are going to discuss a condition that occurs after trauma and surgery as well as after traumatic injuries to the head, neck and spine. The condition? Heterotopic ossification.

Heterotopic ossification happens when bone grows outside of its normal location and into the surrounding soft tissues of your body. When this happens, the pieces of bone that develop are called ...

A 6-year 11-month-old male presented to the outpatient sports medicine clinic reporting an 8-week history of insidious onset anterior knee pain initially left sided but now predominantly on the right.

For patients undergoing surgery for elbow trauma, treatment with the hemostatic drug tranexamic acid (TXA) is associated with a decreased incidence of heterotopic ossification (HO)—a common ...

For patients with thoracic ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (T-OPLL), surgical treatment is effective for improving neurological function, quality of life (QoL), and pain management ...

A man who visited hospital to get his knee checked out shocked doctors, who discovered his penis had started turning to bone. The unnamed 63-year-old man fell over on the sidewalk and hurt his knee, ...

The most common sites of osteochondrosis associated with anterior knee pain occur at secondary centers including the tibial tubercle (Osgood-Schlatter disease) and/or the inferior patellar pole ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tranexamic acid may be indicated for the prevention of heterotopic ossification. Patients undergoing surgery for ...