What benefits can offer hip protector in daily life?
According to data collected by IntraMed (community of health professionals largest in South America) until 2001 in the United States was hospitalized about 650,000 people over 65 years old due to hip fracture. Accumulating a mortality rate of 25% due to adherent complications.
Another study carried out by the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Madrid university Rey Juan Carlos provides the following data:
There’ve been around four millions medical consultations about osteoporosis in Spain in 2001: with affecting of the femoral bones up to 24.2% of women between 70 and 80 years.
Is there is a real risk about hip fracture?
The answer is affirmative. Facts show that about one-third of seniors suffer of falls and have a risk of rupture, and nearly of the half are usually dropped. This figure increases when it comes to the female sex, causing a hip fracture in 25% of cases.
Being an important cause of morbimortality, this means that there is a high risk of disease and mortality in the period after hip fracture.
They highlight the problems of mobility, ulcer generation, bedsores, incontinence problems, depressions, etc.
Results of studies about the benefit of a hip protector
Finnish researchers from the Institute for Health Promotion research conducted a study to determine the usefulness of using hip protectors. More than 1801 seniors participated in this study with a high risk of falling or osteoporosis.
The hip protector is designed to mitigate impacts by absorbing and distributing pressure throughout a larger area.
The results reflected the effectiveness of hip protectors reducing the risk of fracture in the elderly by 60%. Its effectiveness increase until 80% if it uses at the time of the fall.
Recommendations of research teams
Three research teams agree about the need to create a collective awareness of prevention of the risk of hip fractures. Recommending the use of hip protectors reaching elderly age.
The Madrid School of Health Sciences also recommends that each user has three pairs. One to wash, another to carry and another available for use the next day.
At Ubiotex we have manufactured a wide range of hip protectors suitable for each situation: