(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing hip fracture fixation, general anesthesia (GA) is associated with increased 90-day mortality compared with spinal anesthesia (SA), according to a study ...

Operative fixation of isolated, closed humeral shaft fractures yielded a mean DASH score of 24.5 at 3-month follow-up. This was compared with a mean DASH score of 39.4 for nonoperative treatment.

Total hip BMD increases were associated with reduced risk for vertebral and all clinical fractures across active control or sequential therapy trials.

Each year, more than 5 million older adults around the world suffer hip fractures, which can be debilitating and sometimes fatal. One common type of hip fracture, a femoral neck fracture, involves ...

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 ...