Symptoms of hip fracture

Update Date: 2024-11-09 Source: Network

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In real life, except for a few serious injuries, fractures rarely lead to direct death. The last fracture in life mentioned here generally refers to hip fracture which is easy to lead to death in the elderly. There are two common hip fractures in the elderly: one is femoral neck fracture, the other is intertrochanteric fracture. What are the symptoms of hip fracture? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of hip fracture

Local pain and tenderness. Because of local tissue injury or muscle spasm, different degrees of pain may occur after fracture. There are obvious local tenderness and percussion pain in the fracture site, which is often one of the important evidences to judge whether there is fracture or not.

Local swelling, ecchymosis and skin abrasion. After fracture, local blood vessels are injured, collaterals are blocked, and swelling may appear. If the fracture bleeding more, overflow in the subcutaneous, that is, into a plaque. If the myofascial area of the fracture is complete and the bleeding can not overflow, or the circulation is blocked due to the compression of the fracture end, the pressure in the myofascial area will continue to increase, which will affect the arterial blood perfusion, resulting in muscle ischemia and hypoxia, and in severe cases, muscle necrosis and ischemic muscle contracture.

Local dysfunction. After fracture, due to the destruction of the internal support of the limb, the limb loses its due leverage, and at the same time, it causes muscle reflex spasm due to pain, and the limb function may be partially limited or completely lost. However, there may not be obvious dysfunction in green branch fracture and embedded fracture, so careful examination is needed to prevent missed diagnosis

matters needing attention

We should make reasonable changes in home life and social environment in order to reduce the chance of falls and the incidence of osteoporosis. After the occurrence of hip fracture, the overall situation of patients should be evaluated, the fracture should be treated reasonably, and complications should be found and treated early to reduce the mortality and improve the prognosis.