A man who visited hospital to get his knee checked out shocked doctors, who discovered his penis had started turning to bone. The unnamed 63-year-old man fell over on the sidewalk and hurt his knee, ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Doctors in the Bronx say they encountered one of the rarest medical mysteries they've come across – a man's penis was literally turning to bone. According to a team of ...

After a 63-year-old man went to a hospital for pain after falling, doctors found that he may have been dealing with penile ossification, meaning his penis was turning into bone. Penile ossification is ...

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.

Heterotopic ossification happens when bone grows outside of its normal location and into the surrounding soft tissues of your body. When this happens, the pieces of bone that develop are called ...

Musculoskeletal disorders are a primary cause of disability worldwide, especially in aging societies like Japan. As ...