Please don’t smash your face with a hammer. The latest dangerous viral TikTok trend is supposedly convincing people — mostly young men — to break their bones to achieve a chiseled jawline. “Bone smashing” is the practice of repeatedly hitting one’s bones, typically the cheekbones or jawbones, with a hard object like a hammer, to … Read more
This redefined facial filler. Italian surgeons had to reconstruct a man’s face using his leg bone after removing a massive 3-pound tumor on his jaw that was impeding his quality of life. “It is a demanding and complex operation,” lead surgeon Alessandro Baj said of the face-saving procedure, which transpired at the Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio hospital in … Read more
A freak accident left a Delaware woman with portions of her face “falling off” after taking a nasty spill while on a jog with her dog. Shelley Puchalsky, 39, tripped over the shih tzu Chloe and plummeted face forward on a trail, suffering multiple major lacerations to her nose and forehead. Although it happened in … Read more
High school students Vivian Eagle and Cade Thompson look like any other teen in their prom photos — smiling and laughing at the camera. But the happy occasion almost didn’t take place while both brave teens battled bone cancer. Eagle and Thompson, from Indianapolis, said they’ll be “friends forever” over their unique shared experience, as … Read more
A man may have started his life again on the wrong foot, but it literally saved him. Ibrahim Abdulrauf, 22, was shocked to wake up from surgery and see his foot sewn on backward after being injured during a sports game. The injury alerted doctors to a more dire diagnosis — bone cancer. Abdulrauf was … Read more
They thought he was bad to the bone, but he was actually being a good boy. A UK man was horrified after discovering that his dog nearly chewed off his toe — only to find later that his am-pet-ation might’ve saved his life. “He’s done me a favor by chewing my toe,” David Lindsay, 64, … Read more
Former Game of Thrones star and 2018 World’s Strongest Man Hafthor Bjornsson has suffered a horrific injury while going for his bench press personal record this week. The 34-year-old, who was the World’s Strongest Man in 2018 as well as runner up three-times and third-place getter another four times, was on the return to powerlifting … Read more
He’s got a bone to pick. Ben Barnes co-stars as General Kirigan, aka The Darkling, in the Netflix fantasy series “Shadow and Bone,” and in Season 2 (premiering Thursday, March 16), “He enters this much nastier era,” Barnes, 41, told The Post. Based on a popular book series, the show is set in the fantasy … Read more
The self-proclaimed “Liver King” is showing off his transformation after years of chowing down on raw liver. Brian Johnson — who found fame preaching ancestral living — posted a throwback photo of himself from when he was a teenager. The pic, which recently resurfaced online, showed His Majesty looking very different than his beefed-up and … Read more
A three-year-long study has tracked dozens of patients with an ultra-rare disorder that gradually turns muscle, tendons, and ligaments to bone. The lifelong, irreversible condition is known as fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). While estimates on its prevalence vary, confirmed cases occur in roughly one out of every 1 to 2 million births. Only about 800 … Read more
Calcium is the body’s most abundant mineral, and it’s essential for the development and strengthening of bones and teeth, muscle contraction and relaxation, and blood clotting, says Melissa Prest, D.C.N., R.D.N., a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. It’s recommended that adults under 70 consume 1,000 milligrams (mg) daily, according to the National … Read more
One in three women and one in five men over the age of 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis, a disease that makes a person’s bones weak and more likely to break. And we don’t need to explain why having a broken bone is simply the pits. Between the discomfort and the inconvenience … Read more