No tip-toeing around it, this foot bone could change the story of human evolution -- or at least the story of human foot evolution. The bone is additional evidence that Australopithecus afarensis, an ...

MRI plays an important roll in the diagnosis of stress fractures and in imaging acute bone stress changes in bone. [1] In the foot, MRI offers an accurate means of identifying acute bone stress ...

Your hands and feet are made up of dozens of little bones that all work together to allow you to perform everyday activities. If just one of these bones is injured or damaged, regular tasks can become ...

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A bone spur is a growth of extra bone where two or more bones meet that forms as the body tries to repair itself. Bone spurs on top of your foot can feel like a hard lump or bump underneath the skin.

Lucy's feet were made for walking. That's the word from a team of researchers who got a first look at a foot bone from this human relative who lived 3 million or more years ago, and concluded this ...

A lump on your foot isn’t likely to be cancer. But if pain and swelling don’t go away, you may want to contact a doctor. They can perform a biopsy to confirm if the lump is cancerous. Cancer can start ...

Patients with midfoot pain and MRI-detected bone marrow lesions who wore firm foot orthoses achieved greater reductions in pain and bone marrow lesion volume over 12 weeks than those who wore ...

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