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  1. Growth plate fractures - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    Growth plate fractures — This common childhood bone injury often needs immediate treatment as it can result in a shorter, longer or crooked limb.

  2. Mayo Clinic Q and A: How to avoid an ankle injury

    I recently heard reports of an increase in ankle sprains and broken ankles particularly in an older population, due in part to both activity and aging. How can ...

  3. Spinal cord injury - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    It also can include damage to nerves at the end of the spinal cord, known as the cauda equina. The spinal cord sends and receives signals between the brain and ...

  4. Subconjunctival hemorrhage (broken blood vessel in eye) - Doctors and departments - Mayo Clinic

    Subconjunctival hemorrhage is a broken blood vessel in the eye — learn more about this common, harmless condition that clears up without treatment.

  5. Helping elderly patients with rib fractures avoid serious respiratory complications - Mayo Clinic

    Older trauma patients sustaining rib fracture may have one broken rib or polytrauma. With four or more ribs fractured, mortality increases significantly, ...

  6. Is Bruising Easily Normal or Does It Signal a Bigger, Underlying Problem?

    Bruises form when small blood vessels, called capillaries, near the skin's surface are broken by the force of injury or impact. When this happens, blood ...

  7. A Life Restored - Mayo Clinic News Network

    I broke both elbows in falls over the next few months as the knee ... Experiences in the past led me to see myself as a “broken person” who was ...

  8. Hip fracture - Doctors and departments - Mayo Clinic

    Broken elbow, Malunion. Show more areas of focus for Krystin A. Hidden, M.D. ... Broken wrist, Rheumatoid arthritis, Knee pain, Stress fracture ...

  9. Stress fractures - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic

    Stress fractures are tiny cracks in bones often caused by overuse or osteoporosis. Learn how to prevent and treat them.

  10. Osteomyelitis - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    Surgery to repair broken bones or replace worn joints also can accidentally open a path for germs to enter a bone. Implanted orthopedic hardware is a risk ...