Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed patients who undergo unilateral total hip arthroplasty may experience decreases in bone mineral ...

November 23, 2021 – Total hip replacement may affect the development of a type of pelvic stress fracture, sacral insufficiency fracture (SIF), suggests a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

Sacral insufficiency fractures are an often overlooked source of lower back and buttock pain in older adults, especially elderly women. Advanced age and female sex are risk factors for ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: My 94-year-old mother has a sacral fracture, diagnosed after ...

In patients with methotrexate osteopathy (MTXO) insufficiency fractures, continuing MTX led to a significantly higher risk for subsequent fractures, with nearly all patients who continued MTX ...

Dr. Daryl J. Selen: A 29-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of recurrent bone fractures and hypophosphatemia. The patient had been well until 19 months before admission, when pain in ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 94-year-old mother has a sacral fracture, diagnosed after a fall six weeks ago. A CT scan diagnosed the fracture. She was put on Tylenol 3, and when that didn't help the pain much, ...