Hip Fracture
You can break your hip at any age, but the great majority of hip fractures occur in people older than 65. In young, healthy patients, these fractures usually result from high-velocity injuries, such as motor vehicle collisions or falls from significant heights.
Causes of Hip Fracture
In younger patients with stronger bones, more common causes of a broken hip include high-energy injuries such as car accidents. Hip fractures can also be caused by bone weakened from tumor or infection, a problem called a pathologic fracture. A broken hip in the elderly can be explained primarily by weak bones and osteoporosis. Elderly patients with osteoporosis are at much higher risk of developing a hip fracture than someone without osteoporosis.
Symptoms of Hip Fracture
Some signs and symptoms of a hip fracture can be notice is like immobility immediately after a fall. And you will feel severe pain in your hip or groin. You would also feel inability to put weight on your leg on the side
of your injured hip. Causing stiffness, bruising and swelling in and around your hip area. You would find shorter leg on the side of your injured hip and turning outward of your leg on the side of your injured hip.
Treatment of Hip Fracture
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