Now winter is rolling in my eyes! And with it ice. Everyone suffers from ice, but it’s one thing for young people who are able to group themselves when they fall, and quite another for the elderly.. One of the most common and serious injuries is a hip fracture..

According to statistics, this injury accompanies women in most cases.. And can be deadly.

What needs to be done in order not to go to extremes, experts from the Central Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics say:.

Fracture of the neck of the femur as a result of trauma during a fall on the hip joint, more common in women. Some reasons can be speculated. For example, women are known to live longer, they are more likely to have osteoporosis (impaired bone mineral metabolism) - a systemic disease caused by both childbearing and metabolic disorders.

Every second patient with a hip fracture suffers from osteoporosis, but many people do not receive proper treatment because they do not even know that they have this disease. And already in the hospital after the examination, it becomes clear what became the indirect cause of the fracture.

This is due to the mechanism of the injury itself. It would seem why a person falls with his whole body, but the neck of the femur suffers more.? First, it is related to the mechanism of the injury itself.. When a person falls, he automatically leans on the elbow or hip joint.

If you fall on your side (which is usually the case), the extreme point of the fall will be the greater trochanter of the femur, followed immediately by the neck of the femur. This is a very complex, durable and at the same time delicate apparatus, so it is easy to damage..

After a person falls and a fracture of the femoral neck occurs, he cannot stand on this leg, he feels severe pain in the area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bthe hip joint. After such an injury, an ambulance delivers the victim directly from the street to the hospital, where he is given first aid..

To date, conservative treatment of such a fracture in most cases is futile.. A person needs to be operated on as soon as possible before complications develop, and put on his feet as soon as possible so that he can serve himself.. The sooner the operation is done, the higher its effectiveness..

The operation is excluded only if it itself can lead to death.. For example, a person will not be able to endure anesthesia, he has serious concomitant diseases, in which the operation is impossible.

If surgery is not possible, after the pain has subsided, patients must be planted, turned over, lifted. There are also impacted fractures of the femoral neck (one bone enters another). Then it makes sense not to do the operation, to wait until the fracture heals itself.

What is a neo-joint?

At the same time, there is such a practice when a doctor diagnoses a fracture of the femoral neck and sends the patient home, prescribes bed rest, courtship of relatives. As a rule, the fracture itself does not grow together, but not all clinics have the opportunity to competently perform the operation (there is no equipment, experience, finances or for other reasons). Often, a patient needs a hip replacement surgery, but an artificial joint is quite expensive, and not everyone can afford it..

Therefore, if you or a loved one find themselves in such a situation, follow the following rules.. As soon as acute pains subside, approximately 7 days after the injury, plus or minus 2-3 days, a sick person must constantly be planted, turned over to one side, trying to put him on crutches or a walker so that he moves, sits with a limited load. Then the so-called neo-joint is formed, t. false joint, which to some extent compensates for the broken.

Vadim Kirillov.

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