Out of an estimated 7.9 million fractures that happen each year in the United States, 5% to 10% of them don’t heal (nonunion) or take a longer than usual time to heal (delayed union).

Our multivariate regression analysis further corroborates the well-supported concept that a lack of cortical continuity (<25%) is a strong predictor of nonunion and reoperation. [6, 11, 25, 29, 30 ...

Epidemiology of Fracture Nonunion in 18 Human Bones. JAMA Surgery, 2016; e162775 DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2016.2775 ...

Median costs of inpatient services not related to tibia fractures were almost 20 times higher in nonunion patients than in those without nonunion ($7,214.43 vs. $368.81, P < 0.001).

Nonunion rate Zura and his colleagues identified analyzed 309,330 fractures in patients (57.9% women) ranging from 18 years to 63 years of age from a large payer database compiled by Truven Health ...

In their recent meta-analysis on the role of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound therapy on fracture healing, 1 Jason Busse and colleagues conclude that treatment with low-intensity pulsed ultrasound ...

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Key takeaways: Cannabis-only users had a 10.1% rate of nonunion 24 months after a scaphoid fracture. Patients who did not use either tobacco or cannabis had a 7.7% rate of nonunion 24 months after ...

Scaphoid fracture is a break in the scaphoid bone, one of the small bones in your wrist. Breaks are often caused during falls or as a result of repeated use of the wrist in sports such as skiing ...