Some hip fracture patients are having to wait up to 80 days for a physiotherapist to visit them at home after being discharged from hospital, a union has warned. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy ...

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 ...

In the human body, the femur, the thigh bone is one of the largest and strongest bones which extends from the hip joint all the way down to the knee joint. Being the strongest bone, a significantly ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The reduced risks for osteoporotic and hip fractures with bisphosphonate therapy outweigh increased risk for ...

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' Board of Directors approved a new clinical practice guideline for the treatment of pediatric diaphyseal femur fractures. Diaphyseal (the shaft of a long ...

Intraoperative perforation of the femur, a serious complication of hip arthroplasty, encompasses a broad spectrum — from a simple hole in the bone to a displaced fracture with an unstable prosthesis.