Health Tip: Healing a Fractured Tailbone
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(HealthDay News) -- A fractured tailbone can be extremely painful, and usually takes about four to six weeks to heal. To help minimize pain and stay comfortable while the injury is healing, follow these suggestions from the University of Michigan Health System:   Use a doughnut cushion when seated. Apply an ice pack to the injury for about 20 minutes at a time, several times a day. Talk to your doctor about pain-relieving medications. Moving your bowels can be very painful, especially if you're constipated. Try to prevent constipation by drinking lots of fluids and eating plenty of fiber.
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Scientists have discovered that a key cancer gene also plays a role in repairing damaged nerve cells. The Cancer Research UK team hope their finding could lead to new treatments for spinal injuries.
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NEW YORK  - In elderly patients with hip fracture, six months of outpatient rehabilitation and progressive resistance training is better than home exercise in improving physical performance and mobility and reducing disability, according ...
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Chiropractic correction of trauma-induced injury to the upper spine may halt or reverse the progression of both multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease symptoms, according to a Colorado practitioner.
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Patients with degenerative disc disease in their spines may have an alternative to getting their vertebrae fused, which alleviates pain but limits motion.
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The Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved the use of electrical stimulation of bone growth - a decades-old technology - to improve the success rate of spinal fusion
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Q I have a friend who just broke her ankle. She's used to a very active lifestyle (running five to 10 miles per day), but of course now she's bound in a cast. What kinds of exercises do you recommend to keep her from going crazy?
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Sedentary men are more than one and a half times as likely as active ones to suffer a broken bone, and more than two and a half times as likely to break a hip, a new study suggests.
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Alternative therapies such as acupuncture and spinal manipulation may be worth a try to help relieve neck, back and knee pain. That&#39;s the conclusion of a trio of studies that appear in the Dec.
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The trauma center's radio crackles an alert: A 34-year-old woman injured in an auto wreck is being brought in by helicopter. Parts of her scalp have been torn back, exposing her skull. Broken bones may be sticking out through the skin of her left leg. Her injuries may help save the lives of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
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NEW YORK  - A drug used to restore the  strength of brittle bones by reducing the process of bone  resorption has been shown to benefit women 80 years of age or  older.
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(National-NBC) Nov. 30, 2004 - A medicine used to make a woman&#39;s bones stronger may also cut the risk of breast cancer in half.
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NEW YORK  - Athletes who have suffered  spinal injuries severe enough to make them temporarily lose  feeling in their limbs can sometimes safely return to their  sport, research suggests.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDay News) -- While calcium supplements have been touted to prevent broken bones in adults, providing them to children may not help prevent fractures as they age, Australian researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Spinal and non-spinal fractures  are reduced by almost a third in women age 80 or older who take  a drug called strontium ranelate, European investigators  announced at the annual meeting of the American College of  Rheumatology that is underway in San Antonio, Texas.
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When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he had done. It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit of a couch potato lately.
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Calcium supplements can reduce the risk of bone fractures by 24 percent in the elderly, according to a study published Friday in the British journal The Lancet.