Primary total hip and total knee replacements are among the most common and successful orthopedic procedures worldwide. These ...

According to the Arthritis Foundation, the hip is one of the body’s largest weight-bearing joints. It is where the thigh bone meets the pelvis to form a ball-and-joint socket. The hip joint ...

Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths ... a much more tiring situation. In humans, the thigh bone slopes inward from the hip to the knee, placing our feet under our center of gravity.

Hip dips, also called trochanteric depressions or "violin hips," are natural indentations on the outer side of the hips, where the hip bone and thigh meet. They are caused by the natural structure ...

A team of biomedical engineers at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science working with a team of bio-scientist colleagues from NASA Ames Research Center, both in the U.S., has found that test mice ...