| Risk | Types | Assessment | Surgical Intervention |
|---|
- Osteoporosis
- Age >60
- Women (white)
- While postmenopausal
- Immobility/sedentary lifestyle
| Intracapsular (femoral neck; within hip joint and capsule) | - Slight trauma
- Pain: groin and hip
- Lateral rotation, shortening of leg, minimal deformity
| Total hip replacement |
| Extracapsular ( outside hip joint; also called intertrochanteric ) | - Direct trauma
- Severe pain
- External rotation, shortening of leg, obvious deformity
| - Internal fixation with nail ( open reduction )
- Possible total hip replacement
|
| Subtrochanteric (below lesser trochanter) | - Direct trauma
- Leg pain near fracture site
- External rotation, shortening of leg, deformity
- Presence of hematoma
| - Internal fixation with nail (open reduction)
- Closed reduction
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