This week, we are going to discuss a condition that occurs after trauma and surgery as well as after traumatic injuries to the head, neck and spine. The condition? Heterotopic ossification.

Queensland researchers have solved the century-old mystery of why patients who suffer severe spinal cord and brain injuries ...

Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is a progressive spinal disease characterized by ectopic bone formation in the spine, leading to severe neurological symptoms due to spinal ...

Heterotopic ossification (HO) is the formation of extrinsic bone around a joint that has been subject to trauma, surgery, or in those with spinal cord injury and traumatic amputations. It seems the ...

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Among patients with metabolic syndrome, those with vs without diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis had a significantly higher average number of Drc-spondylophytes. Roughly one-third of patients ...