Fragility hip fracture a silent killer


Keep moving: KPJ Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital Physiotherapists attending to a patient using parallel bars to assist with ambulation. — RAJA FAISAL HISHAN/The Star

 

PETALING JAYA: Fragility hip fractures among the elderly are a serious public health concern not for the fracture itself, but from possible complications that arise from prolonged immobility, says orthopaedic surgeon Dr Mohd Afiq Muhamed Fuad.

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