The intertrochanteric area is where your hip and thigh meet. Learn more about the risk of fractures in this area, the symptoms of intertrochanteric fractures, treatment options, and more.

An intertrochanteric fracture is a specific type of hip fracture. “Intertrochanteric” means “between the trochanters,” which are bony protrusions on the femur (thighbone). They’re the ...

Doyle, Daniel S. Horwitz, MD, and colleagues retrospectively reviewed data from nearly 3,000 intertrochanteric femur fractures treated with short proximal femoral nails between 2007 and 2023.

Worldwide, 4.5 million people are disabled from hip fractures each year, with an expected increase to 21 million persons living with this disability in the next 40 years. 1 Globally, hip fracture ...

KOLOA, Hawaii — Using dynamic hip screws and intramedullary nails may be the best treatment for some displaced intertrochanteric fractures, according to a level 1 trauma surgeon. “Is there a ...

In a recent study published in Engineering, Academician Yingze Zhang’s team introduces the Proximal Femur Bionic Nail (PFBN) as a solution for unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures in ...