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Broken Hip - Hip Fracture
- Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors
- Symptoms & Signs
- Diagnosis & Tests
- Prevention & Expectations
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Prevention & Expectations
What can be done to prevent the injury?
Some fractures can be prevented by following sports safety guidelines for children, adolescents, and adults.
Bone loss, which increases a person's risk of hip fractures, can be slowed by doing 30 minutes of moderate weight-bearing exercise a day. Weight-bearing exercise includes low-impact aerobics, walking, running, lifting weights, tennis, and step aerobics. A person doing moderate exercise can talk normally without shortness of breath and is comfortable with the pace of the activity. The 30 minutes a day can be done all in 1 session or broken up into smaller segments of time.
Low-impact aerobics and water aerobics are examples of exercises that minimize joint stress in elderly individuals or people with arthritis. Recent research has shown that people who participate in high-impact activities such as jogging have less bone loss as they age.
Individuals can lower their risk of hip fractures following osteoporosis by: