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Kathie Lee Gifford is on the mend after a fall down the stairs in her Tennessee home left her with a fractured pelvis in two places — and she credits it all to the "hundreds of thousands of ...
Carrie Underwood took to Twitter to update her fans on her condition after sustaining 'multiple injuries' during a fall down stairs.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived back at her California home on Wednesday after suffering a fall in “very high” heels and undergoing hip replacement surgery during her trip to Europe.
Human anatomy of the back. Back injuries result from damage, wear, or trauma to the bones, muscles, or other tissues of the back. Common back injuries include sprains and strains, herniated discs, and fractured vertebrae. [1] The lumbar spine is often the site of back pain.
In the United States alone, the total cost of falling injuries for people 65 and older was $31 billion in 2015. The costs covered millions of hospital emergency room visits for non-fatal injuries and more than 800,000 hospitalizations. By 2030, the annual number of falling injuries is expected to be 74 million older adults. [38]
Low back pain causes disability in a larger percentage of the workforce in Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden than in the US or Germany. [136] In the United States, low back pain is highest of Years Lived With Disability (YLDs) rank, rate, and rercentage Change for the 25 leading causes of disability and injury, between 1990 and ...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was hospitalized for evaluation in Luxembourg after falling on a set of stairs and sustaining an injury during a trip with a congressional delegation. A ...
Piriformis syndrome is often left undiagnosed and mistaken with other pains due to similar symptoms with back pain, quadriceps pain, lower leg pain, and buttock pain. These symptoms include tenderness, tingling and numbness initiating in low back and buttock area and then radiating down to the thigh and to the leg. [ 72 ]