Pelvis Fracture - General Health Message Board

artbuggy3 · 05-17-2004, 07:54 PM

My Mom-mom went to the emergency room saturday night because she was having shooting pains down her leg. After four hours they said she had a fractured pelvis. She thinks that her therapy lady did this. Can the therapy people actually fracture bones expecially the pelvis. I would think this would be hard to break because it of all the cushion around it. They told her it would just heal on its own and to get a lot of rest. She is 73.

Laurie2 · 05-18-2004, 05:20 AM

After menopause and the lessening of estrogen as we get older is bone density loss. With worse loss, this becomes osteoporosis. Without an adeqate diet in calcium and some kind of exercise, this can continue and leave the bone thinner making it easier to fracture. Why people in their 70s and older suffer more fractures than if they were younger. With most it is from a fall but the injury can be caused by other ways too. This is probably why it happened the way it did.

Some people do not even know this thinning has happened until an injury has occurred. There are bone density tests that can be taken to find out how far it had gone. Women, because of their diets, habits or genetics (if osteoporosis runs in the family) are more prone to this than the men...but they get it too.

When taking a college Women's Strength class, there were some older women there who wanted to increase their density to prevent just this sort of thing. One of the benefits of Resistance training is to help build bone mass along with muscle tone. That and a good diet.

tishea · 05-18-2004, 09:34 AM

Osteoporosis is definitely a silent disease until something happens. Your mom could have fractured her hip by simply sitting down awkwardly or a sudden movement while sleeping. What kind of therapy was she in? And what kind of therapy did she recieve that day before the pain started happening? Those are important questions to find out answers for....hopefully would rule out the therapist being the cause

artbuggy3 · 05-19-2004, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by tishea

Osteoporosis is definitely a silent disease until something happens. Your mom could have fractured her hip by simply sitting down awkwardly or a sudden movement while sleeping. What kind of therapy was she in? And what kind of therapy did she recieve that day before the pain started happening? Those are important questions to find out answers for....hopefully would rule out the therapist being the cause

My grandmother had her hip replaced sept or oct of 03 and I think that is what the therapy is for but I am not sure....she is in the doctors almost every day because this and that hurts. Thanks for replying!