Background The cartilage of the epiphyseal plate might be 2–5 times weaker than surrounding fibrous tissue; therefore epiphyseal (growth) plates are very sensitive to their surrounding mechanical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The incidence of pediatric knee injuries has been increasing in the last several years due to increased sports ...

Dhruv B. Pateder, Roman A. Eliseev, Regis J. O'Keefe, Edward M. Schwarz, Paul Okunieff, Louis S. Constine, J. Edward Puzas, Randy N. Rosier Radiation Research, Vol ...

Growth-plate injuries of the shoulder and elbow are common injuries in youth and adolescent baseball players. The growth-plate (epiphyseal plate or physis) is an area of cartilage at the end of a bone ...

FETAL malnutrition syndrome is a term used to describe the infant who is small for gestation and often wasted at birth. A wide variety of names have been used by others to describe this condition, ...

A systematic review of the literature on the frequency and characteristics of sports related growth plate injuries affecting children and youth in organised sport was carried out. Both acute and ...

Fifty years ago, the prevailing wisdom was that children should not lift weights until they are past puberty and well into their teens. It was thought that lifting weights could stunt growth caused by ...

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 to ...