Among older adults who sustained a hip fracture, a significant proportion demonstrated varying levels of resilience across different HRQOL domains.

Are you worried about bone fractures? If you are age 50 and older, you should be paying attention to your bone health.

It's a run that I started for my health, but it's easy to overlook the fact that starting without preparation can harm my ...

After emerging on the scene in the early 2000s, fracture liaison services (FLS) have solidified their place for preventing ...

An osteoanabolic agent should be the first choice treatment for patients at high or imminent risk for fracture, but once ...

Neuraxial anesthesia is associated with significantly reduced odds of several major postoperative complications in patients undergoing hip fracture procedures, according to research presented at the ...

fhi.no Objectives Patients with hip fracture are typically characterised by extensive comorbidities and excess mortality. Methods that account for a wide range of comorbidities are needed when ...

Helfet, MD Breaks in the pelvis or acetabulum of the hip joint are among the most serious injuries treated by orthopedic surgeons. Often the result of a traumatic incident such as a motor vehicle ...

typically in the setting of specific types of hip fractures. Although there are many described surgical approaches to the hip, the two most common surgical approach methods for performing a total hip ...

Hip fractures, often a result of a fall, are the most serious type of osteoporotic fracture because they are accompanied by considerable pain, loss of muscle and bone strength, reduced mobility ...

We derived dates of recorded hip fractures and also information on smoking, use of corticosteroids, and a number of other drugs. We calculated the absolute risk of fracture and the relative risk as a ...

Skull fracture. A skull fracture is a break in the skull bone. There are four major types of skull fractures, including the following: Linear skull fractures. This is the most common type of skull ...