Why are hip fractures in the elderly so deadly?
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Your body’s ability to recover from physical injury slowly deteriorates as you get older. If a kid breaks their arm, they might get a cast for two weeks or so and then its like it never happened. An adult breaking their arm might be four plus weeks and then still have to take it easy with that arm for a few years. Someone elderly? It might not ever heal to completion in the time they have left. Especially if they have any injury that requires surgery, their bodies being more frail just limits the amount surgeons are actually able to do.
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