In a tale of survival that captivated the world, Aron Ralston was forced to amputate his own arm after it became trapped ...

Aron Ralston, a mountain climber, had to cut off his own arm after becoming trapped by a boulder. He was stuck in the Utah canyon for five days before rescuers arrived ...

A woman who repeatedly plunged the largest kitchen knife she had into the chest and abdomen of her abusive partner as he lay ...

After a harrowing canyoneering mishap left him isolated in the wilderness for five days — with an enormous boulder crushing ...

Many beginners that start lifting weights love to focus on the fun muscle groups like chest and biceps. As they gain more ...

While commonly referred to as a “broken wrist,” most wrist fractures are actually fractures of one or both of the two bones of the forearm, the radius and the ulna. A fracture of ... by natural ...

He was rewarded with a broken arm, and a two ... obliterated his radius and ulna, resulted in a drop. This author, thankfully, has never experienced a broken bone. However, it takes very little ...

Ulnar-shortening "wafer" osteotomy, in which the surgeon removes a small portion of bone from the ulna. This surgery is done to correct injury to the distal radioulnar joint, the area where the radius ...

Myles Grimmett had a bone transplanted from his leg into his arm when he was 5 years old in a groundbreaking surgery that saved him from amputation Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Myles Grimmett (left) after having surgery; (right) Playing on his school's basketball team.

But thanks to “creative” surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, a boy who was diagnosed with bone cancer not only retained movement of his arm — he’s now a star basketball player at his school.