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Originally Posted by suzy_q2010
Your surgeon should determine that.
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This. The type of fracture, the condition/health of the bone and joint before the fracture will all play in to which repair would provide the best outcome.
My BIL had a bad fall on ice while skiing and fractured his hip. He's a healthy man in his early 60s. No arthritis that I ever heard of. Because he has a clotting disorder he takes an anticoagulant. He spent more than 24 hours in traction before surgical repairs could be done. They reconstructed the joint...lots of hardware involved. He was totally non-weightbearing for over 3 months.
A former co-worker fractured a hip in a car crash at a much younger age. Fractured the same hip decades later. Instead of trying to repair the joint again they replaced it. He was walking full weight bearing within a week.
None of us here are orthopedic surgeons AFAIK. As for personal experiences, humans aren't assembly line identical products and neither are their hips. We shouldn't be
recommending anything.
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