MODERN doctor calls them fake, the patients say they are genuine. Others say they are better than modern doctors. They are the traditional bone setters, who are believed to heal human bones after a ...

Hyderabad: Neeraj P (name changed) recently suffered a sprain in his neck. To get relief from shooting pains, he went to a bone setter (‘orthopaedic practitioner’) whom his family has been regularly ...

Cross River residents including drivers and market women have been advised to desist from patronising quack bone setters whenever they were in need of proper bone treatment to avoid unreparable damage ...

Yetunde Oladeinde and Akinotan Daniel go behind the scene to gauge the lives of traditional healers who without the sophisticated world of technology reset broken bones. About eight months ago, the ...

Nigerians have been warned to quit patronising quack bone setters whenever they were in need of proper bone treatment and management. Prof. Tony Udosen, a medical practitioner, Department of ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): An orthopedic specialist at the Waziri Mohammad Akbar Khan Hospital in Kabul has called traditional methods of treating fractures by bone setters dangerous, urging people to seek ...

Dr Orlando Ugwoegbulem, an Orthopaedic Consultant and Trauma Surgeon at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos tells Hannah Ojo about how to avoid congenital and acquired limb loss in ...