May 11, 2010 — Extended physical therapy (PT) and cholecalciferol (2000 IU/day) treatment may be useful together after hip fracture, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial reported ...

Higher levels of psychological resilience are linked to greater improvements in walking speed and distance 16 weeks after hip fracture, a new study finds. Interventions that help boost resilience ...

A new randomized clinical trial found that combining testosterone therapy with exercise training did not significantly improve long-distance mobility in older women recovering from hip fracture. The ...

It has been proposed that anabolic hormonal treatment could boost effectiveness of exercise programs in older women's recovery from hip fracture. In this randomized trial, with 6-minute walk distance ...

The use of a home-based functionally oriented exercise program among patients who had completed standard rehabilitation after hip fracture resulted in modest improvement in physical function at 6 ...

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 ...

Physical therapy can improve your physical function, reduce pain and limit the effects of an injury or health event, such as a stroke, heart attack or long COVID. Physical therapists treat a variety ...

A hip fracture is not common in a 54-year-old woman, unless she is a 54-year-old breast cancer survivor, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. Researchers found that a combination of early ...

The news an elderly relative has broken a hip tends to sound alarm bells, perhaps more than breaking another bone would. That's because a hip fracture dramatically increases an older person's risk of ...