>> >>I'm 78 and was told that is young for a hip fracture.
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>> Jeez, I was 52. Youngest on the ward by about 30 years apart from somebody
>> who'd had a motorbike accident.
Yeah mens orthopaedic is a graveyard! I was 62 and the kiddy on the block.
Mine was not because of an accident or trauma at the time, it just snapped. So they assumed bone cancer spread from prostate - negative, Osteoporosis, nope mild Osteopenia at worse.
Turns out it was the result of a Motorcycle accident 40 years earlier, Biopsy of the screw hole samples revealed the inside had that spot had gone necrotic because of the localised trauma.
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