Hip fractures. These are significant health
issues around the world. Toronto hip fracture risk is impacted negatively
by drugs taken for all types of issues and positively
by nutritional supplements. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre constantly keeps in
mind the risk of fragility hip fracture in our patients with
osteoporosis and carefully observes
our Toronto osteoporotic patients. A new, simple
way to address hip fracture risk seems to be daily
multivitamin supplementation. Easy!
Toronto OSTEOPOROSIS AND HIP FRACTURE
As easy as it seems, just finding the people
who are at risk for osteoporotic hip fractures and treating them to prevent
a hip fracture is occasionally a trick! A meta-analysis
(a top-level review) of published research findings about
the effectiveness of screening the general population reported
that such screening decreased osteoporotic fractures and hip
fractures. (1) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is watchful of at-risk
Toronto osteoporotic and hip fracture patients.
DRUGS AND Toronto OSTEOPOROTIC HIP FRACTURE
Fragility hip fractures and related issues
like mortality are issues for healthcare providers. Some
pharmaceutical products are described as changing
bone structure and impact the risk of fragility hip fractures.
These drugs were highly linked to
these fractures in this review of 38 studies on the topic:
antidepressants, antiparkinsonian drugs, antipsychotic drugs, anxiolytic drugs,
H2 antagonists, benzodiazepines, proton
pump inhibitors, and thyroid hormone.
One drug intervention was linked to a reduced risk of hip fracture: hormone replacement therapy with estrogen. The advice
researchers proposed to give patients at risk of fragility hip
fractures caused by medications: information
about osteoporosis and fracture prevention. (2) That’s good
advice. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is all about sharing information and would
add that new research points to
supplementation as a help.
Toronto CHIROPRACTIC SUGGESTED NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
AND HIP FRACTURE REDUCTION
As hip fracture is a serious complication of osteoporosis, a
non-drug approach like multivitamin use and its effect on hip fracture risk is most
interesting. A
meta-analysis found 8 studies on hip fracture risk and
multivitamin use. 80,148 subjects – 4237 of them had a fragility hip fracture –
were included. The average age was 69 years. 21% were
male. Combined multivitamin supplements are already quite popular
and widely used. Their use was observed to be
significantly protective against osteoporosis-related hip fracture. (3)
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre would hate to see any of our osteoporotic patients experience
a hip fracture!
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CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
Schedule your Toronto chiropractic
appointment today. We can evaluate your fragility hip
fracture risk and the appropriateness of adding a multivitamin to your daily
nutrition routine to prevent your experiencing a
hip fracture.