In adolescents without hip pathology, results published in the Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics showed epiphyseal tilt had no age-specific variations, as well as showed no difference in male ...

Box 1. Types of bones . Long bones – typically longer than they are wide (such as humerus, radius, tibia, femur), they comprise a diaphysis (shaft) and epiphyses at the distal and proximal ends, ...

Nowadays, the prevailing wisdom is that youngsters can lift weights and it's common to start as young as age 7. This assumes precautions are in place, like lifting only when supervised; performing ...

All-epiphyseal tibial tunnel. Special considerations are made to avoid physeal disruption while drilling the tibial tunnel, which is horizontally oriented and should not cross the physis.

Histochemical observations on sections of the epiphyseal cartilage plate of young rabbit bones suggest that free anionic sites are present in the hypertrophic cartilage zone. This finding may help ...