Falls and Fractures
Falls and fractures. Effective interventions in health and social care FALLS AND FRACTURES
... Underlying many of the risk factors is a common condition known as osteoporosis, which weakens bone strength. It is a chronic disease that affects one in three women and one in 12 men aged over 50. Osteoporosis ...
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Dementia, falls and fractures
... on falls and fractures services fuelled by the ageing population, in combination with the need for significant efficiency savings to be achieved within the NHS by 2015 125 , would suggest that a training ...
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Long-Term Factors Associated With Falls and Fractures Poststroke
... specific fractures with higher diseases ...of falls and fractures based on ICD-10 codes, there could also have been unreported events or underestimation of their true prevalence among the ...
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The therapeutic effects of alfacalcidol on bone strength, muscle metabolism and prevention of falls and fractures
... peripheral fractures by reducing ...reduces falls, is unique, differentiating this form of therapy from all other anti-osteoporotic drugs, none having demonstrated any influence on ...
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Effect of whole-body vibration exercise in preventing falls and fractures: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... age falls at least once a ...of falls cause a higher incidence of fragility fractures in people aged 50 years or ...fragility fractures poses a significant chal- lenge to healthcare ...
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<p>Vitamin D Megadose: Definition, Efficacy in Bone Metabolism, Risk of Falls and Fractures</p>
... and falls in patients that had been administered with megadoses of cholecalciferol (500,000 IU annually), with- out fi nding signi fi cant data to support their use for the prevention of falls and ...
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Relationship between subjective fall risk assessment and falls and fall-related fractures in frail elderly people
... of falls in the frail elderly ...fall-related fractures in frail elderly ...for falls in your subjective ...of falls and fractures in the frail elderly ...
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A cluster randomised controlled trial of advice, exercise or multifactorial assessment to prevent falls and fractures in community-dwelling older adults: protocol for the prevention of falls injury trial (PreFIT)
... INTRODUCTION Falls and fall-related fractures are a major public health burden for individuals and ...society. Falls are associated with loss of inde- pendence, functional decline and are a con- ...
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Trials and tribulations of recruiting 2,000 older women onto a clinical trial investigating falls and fractures: Vital D study
... Intervention studies with a fracture outcome require large sample sizes of older adults yet frail older women are dif- ficult to recruit onto placebo-controlled trials of long duration. Power calculations suggest 6,500 ...
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Laxative use and incident falls, fractures and change in bone mineral density in postmenopausal women: results from the Women’s Health Initiative
... The strengths of our analysis include the sample size of our study population, the large number of complete follow- up and the structured availability of several confounding factors. Nonetheless, our study also exhibits ...
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Epidemiology of falls and osteoporotic fractures: a systematic review
... fall-related fractures cost approximately $12 billion in direct medical ...of fractures in community-dwelling older populations are osteoporotic, so the estimated cost of fall- related osteoporotic ...
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Falls Predict Fractures Independently of FRAX Probability: A Meta-Analysis of the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Study
... of falls data in the current FRAX cohorts, a report of an International Society for Clinical Densitometry/International Osteoporosis Foundation Task Force recommended that FRAX probability may be modified to ...
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Maxillofacial Fractures due to Falls: does Fall Modality Determine the Pattern of Injury?
... maxillofacial fractures following HF were males, between 17 and 59 ...Maxillofacial fractures of the middle third were the most numerous in this group of ...craniomaxillofacial fractures involving ...
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Femur Fractures Resulting From Stair Falls Among Children: An Injury Plausibility Model
... individual falls, com- pressive forces may be generated in the initial larger- magnitude fall to the first step, as suggested by the stair-fall model proposed by Joffe and Ludwig, 8 or may result at the time of ...
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World Health Organization fracture risk assessment tool in the assessment of fractures after falls in hospital
... predicting fractures after falls and to generalize the findings of our ...for falls, which were cal- culated by the standard approach, might be incorrect because falls might be recurrent and ...
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Vitamin D reduces falls and hip fractures in vascular Parkinsonism but not in Parkinson’s disease
... Therefore, we believe vitamin D may increase muscle strength by improving atrophy of type II muscle fibers, which may lead to decreased falls and hip fractures. In future studies, randomized controlled ...
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Low admission Norton scale scores are associated with falls long after rehabilitation in the elderly with hip fractures
... of falls, number of falls, number of recent falls (,6 months), incidence of fractures, number of hospitalizations, and deaths during the follow-up period were compared between patients with ...
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Associations between vertebral fractures, increased thoracic kyphosis, a flexed posture and falls in older adults: a prospective cohort study
... vertebral fractures, increased thoracic kyphosis and/or flexed posture with future fall incidents in older adults within the next ...Vertebral fractures were evaluated on lateral radiographs of the spine ...
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Occupational Therapy Submission for falls and Fractures Prevention.
... Campbell AJ, Robertson MC, La Grow SJ, Kerse NM, Sanderson GF, Jacobs RJ, Sharp DM, Hale LA (2005). Randomised controlled trial of prevention of falls in people aged >75 with severe visual impairment: the VIP ...
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A cluster randomised controlled trial of advice, exercise or multifactorial assessment to prevent falls and fractures in community dwelling older adults : protocol for the prevention of falls injury trial (PreFIT)
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