There may also be tenderness in the injured area. A hip strain may also be accompanied by other symptoms such as: A hip fracture, particularly a facture in the neck of the femur (upper leg bone), can ...

If someone is in severe, excruciating pain, they should go to the emergency department before trying any stretches or home remedies as they may have a hip fracture or dislocation. Below are six ...

Read by title at the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 5, 1941. † Assistant professor of surgery, Tufts College Medical School; associate in ...

Osteoporosis is a chronic condition characterized by reduced bone quality and density, which leads to higher bone fragility and increases susceptibility to fractures. The spine, wrist, and hip are ...

Range of motion (ROM) is a measurement of the distance and direction a joint can move to its full potential. Hip ROM is dictated by the ball-and-socket hip joint, which is made up of the femur ...

Displaced subcapital femoral neck fracture has highest possibility of avascular necrosis of femoral head and non-union among the femoral neck fractures, which commonly necessitate revisions or hip ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction: Sex differences are commonly reported for hip fracture incidence rates and recovery. Current knowledge about mobility recovery after hip fracture involves clinical assessments of ...

The article, entitled, “Psychotropics and weak opioid analgesics in plasma samples of older hip fracture patients–detection frequencies and consistency with drug records,” was published in the British ...