hip fracture

So one would argue from a safety injury prevention standpoint, the most important.

Let's start with falls and hip fractures, because I think that is what we left off that little breadcrumb in the very last episode.

And This is arguably the most important thing.

People have talked about this a lot, have given it appropriate attention.

I think this is one of those things that's talked a lot about on the interwebs, and it should be talked about even more.

Depending on what paper you look at, again, some literature review I was looking at all the way back in the 90s, this one paper I came across.

Bakari in 1999 said that most hip fractures following a fall in one Finnish hospital studies resulted in a day most fractures were following a fall and up to 98% in this.

And the CDC numbers attribute 88% of hip fracture emergencies and hospitalizations in adults 65 and older to falls.