Almost a decade has passed since The National Center for Health Statistics con­ducted a study that made Americans aware of the serious dangers that face people of all ages, especially those over 60 who are at risk of falling. In addition to being the number one cause of injury for anyone over the age of 18, it is the leading cause of emergency hospital visits for those over 25 (including broken hips among the elderly, whose bones weaken with age), and, of greatest concern, a contributing cause of death within one year for one out of three such patients.

With the subject of healthcare in the fore­front of today’s news headlines, both politically and economically, this is an ap­propriate time to evaluate the progress that has been made in the treatment of an issue that affects millions of Americans, but most people do not recognize this as being a seri­ous problem until it is too late. The follow­ing profile of a member of a noted medical group practice explains the problem, as well as describes a state-of-the-art technique that health professionals now have available to them to help their patients avoid the dangers of this common risk shared by so many.… [Continue Reading]