What’s New in Osteoporosis and Fragility Fractures 2025
New insights regarding osteoporosis and fragility fractures are presented in the JBJS Guest Editorial What’s New in Osteoporosis and Fragility …
The Cost-Effectiveness of Fragility-Fracture Screening and Prevention
After nearly 2 decades, the orthopaedic community has made a good start on assuming our responsibility in the diagnosis of …
Halt Bisphosphonates in Patients with an Atypical Femoral Fracture
Osteoporosis is the major contributor to the increasing incidence of fragility fractures associated with low-energy falls. The other contributor is …
More Evidence: Coordinated Care Reduces Risk of Second Fragility Fracture
Fracture liaison services and similar coordinated, multidisciplinary fragility-fracture reduction programs for patients with osteoporosis work (see related OrthoBuzz posts…
More Progress in Preventing Secondary Fragility Fractures
How well do fracture liaison services (FLSs) work in terms of patients who’ve had a fragility fracture receiving a recommendation …
Fracture Liaison Service Boosts Patient Engagement with Secondary Prevention
OrthoBuzz has published several posts about osteoporosis, fragility fractures, and secondary fracture prevention. In the May 17, 2017 edition …
AOA Symposium: Secondary Fracture Prevention
On Thursday, June 23, 2016, the American Orthopaedic Association and the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses will host a full-day …
Fracture Liaison Service Addresses Epidemic of Osteoporosis
The statistics about osteoporosis and associated fragility fractures are sobering:
- One-quarter of adults living in the US currently have osteoporosis
