title: Role of the orthopaedic in fragility fracture and in the prevention of a new fracture: SIOT 2009 recommendations.
abstract: The progressive aging of the population inevitably leads to an increase in all age-related diseases, with osteoporosis arising as a health and social priority. Fragility fractures, resulting by Osteoporosis, may have important consequences such as hospitalizations with long periods of immobility, need of surgery, increased risk of disability and partial or complete loss of autonomy in the ordinary activities of daily life and related economical burden. It is therefore essential to implement immediately a tertiary prevention to reduce the risk of further fractures through a diagnostic-therapeutic evidence-based pathway. So, starting from the fracture, the orthopaedic surgeon is meant to play an essential role in the management of osteoporotic patients, both to reduce the risk of further fractures and improve long-term outcome in these people, thus lowering the health and life quality downward spiral that often results in fractures in the elderly.
authors.affiliation: Orthopaedics and Traumatology, PTV Foundation, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. umberto.tarantino@uniroma2.it
authors.forename: Umberto
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Tarantino
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Iundusi
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cerocchi
authors.forename: Federico Maria
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Liuni
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Feola
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Celi
authors.forename: Jacopo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baldi
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gasbarra
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015519:Bone Density; D003720:Densitometry / Q000379:methods; D005265:Femoral Neck Fractures / Q000517:prevention & control; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D058866:Osteoporotic Fractures / Q000517:prevention & control; D012306:Risk; D016896:Treatment Outcome