New guidance has been released to advise providers on how to treat, rehabilitation and prevent hip fractures in senior patients. Developed by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the ...
Compared with exercise alone, combining exercise training with testosterone gel application did not result in longer 6-minute walk distances (6MWDs) in older women with a recent hip fracture repair ...
Among patients who had completed standard rehabilitation after hip fracture, the use of a home exercise program that included exercises such as standing from a chair or climbing a step resulted in ...
Hip fractures are common in the elderly, with many patients experiencing a decline in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) post-surgery. Therefore, postoperative rehabilitation plays a crucial role in ...
No one wants to get that call. A loved one has taken a fall. There’s always the hope that it will be just a bruise and shaken ...
Heart attacks and broken hips cause much suffering and worry as people grow older. This year, Medicare wants to start changing how it pays for treatment of these life-threatening conditions, to ...
According to results from a recent study, 71% of patients who sustained a hip fracture were not informed that they have a bone weakening disease known as osteoporosis as a contributing reason for ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although most patients with intertrochanteric hip fractures can be effectively treated with either sliding hip ...
(CNN) --The news an elderly relative has broken a hip tends to sound alarm bells, perhaps more than breaking another bone would. That's because a hip fracture dramatically increases an older person's ...
Osteoporotic hip fracture, already a dangerous and debilitating problem for older men and women worldwide, is poised to become a far more severe global public-health issue as the population grows ...
Hip fracture prevalence is trending downward in countries and regions around the world, a new study has found. But the decreases will not compensate for the global impact of aging populations, experts ...
Functional status is an important predictor of an acute care readmission in patients who have had a unilateral hip fracture. Objectives: To test whether functional status is a robust predictor of ...