A growing health concern among older adults: fragility fractures of the pelvis and hip are on the rise, raising alarms in ...

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COPENHAGEN — Quality of life and return to sport are significantly decreased by pelvic fracture, according to investigators from the United Kingdom. Mudussar A. Ahmad, MD, presented his team’s ...

Awareness of the effect of severe pelvic fractures on sexual function is extremely important since blunt pelvic trauma affects mostly young adults, a population that is more likely to be sexually ...

According to presented results, men with traumatic pelvic ring fractures are at increased risk for urinary and sexual dysfunction.“The close anatomical relation between the pelvic ring and ...

The Thunder detailed the injury as a right iliac wing fracture and said an update on Holmgren's status will be provided in eight to 10 weeks. The team said Holmgren is expected to return this season.

Charismatic, the 1999 Horse of the Year and dual classic winner, likely died due to internal bleeding as the result of a pelvic fracture, Old Friends has reported.

Pelvic fractures are relatively rare in the general population, so their long-term sequelae have not been studied extensively, explain the authors, led by Katherine F. Harvey-Kelly, BSc, from the ...

The pelvic floor is connected to the tailbone and your lower back. If those muscles are weak, the tailbone weakens, too, creating instability and potentially contributing to a back fracture.

Of these fractures 4 were in the pelvis, 4 in the femur, 8 in the tibia, 6 in the os calcis, and 75 in the metatarsal bones. Fourteen patients had double fractures.