Friday, February 8, 2013

Why People Stricken With Osteoporosis at Risk Of Injury?

It is very alarming whenever people develop osteoporosis because, once they have it, the disease will weaken their bones --  exposing them to great danger and risking them of injury such as having a broken femur, medical experts say. When men and women have broken femur, they would end up with getting a hip replacement such as of those from DePuy Orthopeadic, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, which is facing nowadays about 10,000 lawsuits. As a matter of fact , the orthopedic surgeon who helped design DePuy implant testifies in California trial.



Despite DePuy Orthopeadics's announcement of a voluntary recall in 2010, they were able to collect only 93,000 hip implants worldwide. Still the number of complainants has been continuously rising,  especially those patients who have been made aware that they can sue the company and claim for compensatory damages for the kind of lives they are in at present. Instead of restoring the mobility of their hips due to fracture and giving them back a normal life, it has even worsened their situation.


There were two ASR hip systems that were being recalled, the ASR XL Acetabular System, which is used for total hip replacements, and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System which is being used in a newer kind of bone-conserving procedure. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where the total hip replacement is concerned,  has approved the distribution and use of the ASR system in patients in the US.


Meanwhile, osteoporosis is the most common type of bone disease. It usually occurs when the body fails to form enough new bone, when too much old bone is reabsorbed by the body or both.


Study shows that there is an estimate of about one in five American women over the age of 50 that have osteoporosis. About half of all women over the age of 50 will have a fracture of the hip, wrist, or vertebra (bones of the spine).


As a person age, calcium and phosphate may be reabsorbed back into the body from the bones, which makes the bone tissue weaker. This may result in brittle, fragile bones that are more prone to fractures, even without injury and usually lead to surgery such as hip replacement which has been the subject of several DePuy hip recall lawsuits due to its allegedly fault hip implants.


URL REFERENCES:
emedicinehealth.com/osteoporosis_faqs/page4_em.htm
arthritistoday.org/news/asr-depuy-hip-replacement-recall078.php



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