Immediate Full Weight-Bearing in the Treatment of Hip Fractures

Rehabilitation After Hip Fracture in the Elderly

“…This agreed well with earlier publications. Ring (1963) and Ainsworth (1971) reported no noteworthy complications after immediate weightbearing. Alffram (1961) found no correlation between walking ability and the anatomy of the healed fracture and claimed that rehabilitation was dependent almost entirely on factors other than the actual fracture.…”

Mortality after Hip Fractures

“…Today most orthopaedic surgeons consider operation with early weight-bearing mobilization to be the treatment of choice (Abrami & Stevens 1964, Ainsworth 1971, Graham 1968, Haggquist 1969, Lindholm et al 1971, Parker & Reitman 1976. We have examined whether this change in treatment has affected the mortality after hip fracture.…”

Early Weightbearing After Classical Internal Fixation of Medial Fractures of the Femoral Neck

“…Sometimes there has been failure to diagnose suhcapital fractures because patients have failed to consult thcir doctor and gone on bearing weight on the limb. Such impacted fractures usually heal excellently (Ainsworth 1971 ) . Early weighthearing on the fractured limb has usually been in combination with low-angle nailing (Garden 1961, Sniyth et al 1964, Hullinger 1967, Ainsworlh 1971).…”

“…Bone union does not always take place and late complications are common (Barnes 1970). T h e wide use of treatment with u primary prosthetic replacement has not solved the problem (Gossling & Although it has been possible by means of internal fixalion methods, based on lowangle nailing, to improve the weightbearing stahility of the nailed fracture (Spotoft 1944 Bonnin & Cashman 1963) failures are common even in patients trealcd in this way (Ainsworth 1971, Massie 1973.…”