Hip fracture

Get back on your feet faster—and help yourself avoid a repeat injury—with this essential guide.

Your thigh bone, or femur, is the largest bone in the human body and as such is also one of the strongest bones in your body. As we age and conditions like osteoporosis set in, your bones begin to weaken. A fall can break the top portion of your femur, resulting in what is colloquially known as a hip fracture.

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Hip Fractures Garden Classification Trial Exhibit shows the Garden Classification and types of hip fractures

The source of continued hip pain following fixation of traumatic femoral shaft fracture is not always clear. Intra-articular hip pathology is often overlooked when evaluating the etiology of residual pain. The purpose of this study was to describe cases ...

Degeneration of the Hip and the Replacement Hip #marylikestodraw

Hip Fractures The acetabular joint, or hip joint, is the largest ball and socket joint in the body. When a break or crack in the bone occurs in the femur or acetabulum (hip bone) it is called a hip fracture, or broken hip. A hip fracture commonly occurs in the elderly during even a seemingly harmless fall when the hip bones are weakened (i.e. in the case of osteoarthritis) and often requires hospitalization. A fracture may also be caused by a hard hit in a car accident or during a sporting…

Post op care hip fractures

This post is about hip fractures: types, their symptoms, how to diagnose them and how to treat them.