Hip fracture; an interruption that has consequences four months later. A qualitative study.

Background: Effects following a hip fracture often lead to functional disabilities and increased dependence on others. Although persons sustaining a hip fracture constitute a heterogeneous group in Swedish health care, they tend to be treated as a homogenous one.

Aim: The aim of this study was to reveal how previously healthy people, aged 65 years and older, described how they had adapted to daily life four months after a hip fracture.

Older patients' perception of their own capacity to regain pre-fracture function after hip fracture surgery - an explorative qualitative study.

Aims And Objectives: To explore healthy older patients' perceptions of their own capacity to regain pre-fracture function in the acute phase following hip fracture surgery.

Background: The incidence of hip fractures is expected to increase. In Sweden, of the patients who sustain a hip fracture, 40 per cent are healthy and lived independently pre fracture.

Technique and considerations when using external fixation as a standard treatment of femoral fractures in children.

Femoral fractures in children can be treated effectively and with a low complication rate by using external fixation. However, as with most treatment modalities there is a learning curve to be considered. The aim of this paper is to report "tricks" and different considerations that we have learned to be of value based on experience gained during a prospective and consecutive study of 98 femoral fractures in children aged 3-15 years.

A cost analysis of three methods of treating femoral shaft fractures in children: a comparison of traction in hospital, traction in hospital/home and external fixation.

Introduction: There is no consensus as to which is best treatment of femoral fractures in children.

Patients And Methods: We performed a cost analysis comparing three treatments of femoral shaft fractures in children aged 3-15 years at 3 hospitals during the same period (1993-2000). The analysis included total medical costs and costs for the care provider and were calculated from the time of injury up to 1 year.

Surgical treatment of femoral fractures in children. Comparison between external fixation and elastic intramedullary nails: a review.

Femoral fractures represent about 2% of all fractures in childhood. Children with femoral fractures always need to be admitted to hospital and the use of resources is much higher than for other childhood fractures. During the past decade, there has been a trend towards surgical treatment of these fractures, one advantage being the shorter time required in hospital.

Muscle strength in children treated for displaced femoral fractures by external fixation: 31 patients compared with 31 matched controls.

In a prospective study (1993-2000), we measured the isokinetic strength of the quadriceps and hamstring muscles in 31 children aged 5-17 years, on average, 3 (1.5-5) years after treatment for a displaced femoral fracture by external fixation and early mobilization. A group of age-, sex- and weight-matched children without previous injury were used as controls.

External fixation of displaced femoral shaft fractures in children: a consecutive study of 98 fractures.

Objective: To evaluate unilateral external fixation when applied as the standard treatment of children with displaced femoral shaft fractures.

Setting: Two county hospitals in central Sweden.

Design: A consecutive and prospective study including all children aged 3 to 15 years with displaced femoral fractures admitted to either of the two hospitals.

Radiological outcome after external fixation of 97 femoral shaft fractures in children.

The aim of this prospective, consecutive study was to assess overgrowth and malunion after anatomical reduction and external fixation of displaced femoral shaft fractures in children. Ninety-seven closed femoral fractures in 95 children aged 3-15 were fixed with a unilateral external fixator and followed with conventional radiographs and standardized orthograms for 1 year. To evaluate further overgrowth and remodelling a subgroup of 45 patients was also seen at 2 years.