Prudent' dietary choices in a person's 60s was linked to a slightly lower risk of bone fractures and heart disease mortality ...

Assistant professor of surgery, Tufts College Medical School; associate in surgery, Harvard Medical School; surgeon-in-chief, Bone and Joint Service, Boston City Hospital.

Femoral neck stress fracture: This rare bone break does not occur in the neck, but rather in the femur (large thigh bone) just below the ball of the hip joint. It is typically caused by repetitive ...

"The labrum is where the joint capsule attaches to the bones ... Surgery is also sometimes needed—"particularly with labral tears and hip fractures," notes Momberger. Of course, such ...

Both components are designed to be permanently implanted to achieve reconstructive and functional hip joint replacement. The PHR® System is intended to offer benefits over total hip ...

Maintaining the integrity of joint capsule is beneficial for femoral neck fracture reduction (18, 19). Hip arthroscopy requires limited incision of the anterior joint capsule, therefore, accurate ...

Identifying acute pain trajectories among older patients with fragility hip fractures can better inform individualized analgesia management, including opioid use. Distinct acute pain trajectories can ...

Hip fractures typically occur in older adults (aged 65 years and ... involve administering local anesthetics around the sensory nerves that innervate the anterior capsule of the hip joint, the primary ...

All patients were extracted from our digital database that contains all consecutive hip fracture patients, admitted from January 2005 to January 2010. Data were collected retrospectively for ...

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