Background Proximal femoral fractures in older adults affect prognosis, quality of life and medical expenses. Therefore, ...

People with the bone disease osteoporosis who break their femoral neck bones die about as often as people with malignant cancer. One doctor warns of ...

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, 250031 Jinan, China. 2 Research on 2013 stage doctoral student of TCM Orthopaedics, Shandong University of ...

Few studies have assessed its use following hip fracture surgery. The new clinical trial enrolled 50 older adults undergoing hip hemiarthroplasty for isolated intracapsular femoral neck fractures.

One common type of hip fracture, a femoral neck fracture, involves the neck of the femur bone in the upper thigh. One in five femoral neck fractures is minimally displaced, meaning the bone is ...

Patients on GLP-1s for type 2 diabetes had a lower incidence of hip fracture vs. those on other antidiabetic drugs. Femoral neck fracture incidence was lower in the GLP-1 group vs. other ...