A healed femur shows that someone stayed behind ... we can’t afford to wait. The fracture is widening, and the time to heal is now. We need leaders willing to make the hard choices, not just ...

Patients over the age of 50 have an increased risk of mortality following hip fracture, which is dependent on factors such as health and post-fracture comorbidities. Findings from a meta-analysis ...

You can, in fact, get a stress fracture in any bone, although they most often occur in the lower limbs. The most common stress fractures for runners, as you might expect, occur in the hip ...

Severely comminuted distal femur fractures require anatomic internal fixation for best results, but obtaining rigid fixation of the multiple fragments may be challenging or impossible using ...

There are statistics about what happens when you break your hip and they ... of people who fracture their hips wind up in a nursing home type setting for at least some period of time.