The talus bone supports the entire body's weight and connects the ankle with the lower leg. A fracture of the talus bone usually requires surgery and can significantly affect ankle function. There are ...

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Rest, ice, and proper shoes can help heal a bruised heel at home. A sudden heel bruise with severe pain might mean it's a fracture. Heel pain that lasts a long time may require physical therapy or ...

1 Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, ...

This valuable biomechanical analysis of kangaroo kinematics and kinetics across a range of hopping speeds and masses is a step towards understanding a long-standing problem in locomotion biomechanics: ...