The practice of bone-setting was once widespread in Ireland. The local bone-setter would treat patients using physical manipulation of the joints and sometimes massage or poultices. Bone-setting was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not so useful is the right arm of a young chap whose visit to a bone setter turned out bad for him. He lays on a hospital bed helplessly as the devastation of a poor treatment becomes obvious.