Increased frequency and intensity of certain activities can cause stress fractures. These are small cracks in a bone that can become complete fractures without treatment. For instance, people can get ...

A study of more than 97,000 elderly patients with hip fracture found they were not often prescribed osteoporosis medications in an effort to prevent future fractures, and in fact, the rates declined ...

How Do I Know If I Have a Bone Fracture? Doctors can usually recognize most fractures by examining the injury and taking X-rays. Sometimes an X-ray will not show a fracture. This is especially common ...

Over time, increased physical activity can lead to a hip stress fracture. They usually occur in the femoral neck, located at the top of the thigh bone, which connects to the pelvis. This injury most ...