New study finds way to stop excessive bone growth following trau...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 09/22/2009 - 22:00

(Thomas Jefferson University) A recent United States Army study found that excessive bone growth, also known as heterotopic ossificiation (HO), affects up to 70 percent of soldiers who are severely wounded during combat.

The excessive bone forms within muscles and other tissues causing severe pain, reduced mobility and even local paralysis if untreated.

A new study by Thomas Jefferson University researchers found a way to prevent HO in animal models by shutting the process off in its early stages.

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