PRA Medical’s Heel-A-Hip® 9 inch support pillow offers low-density, soft foam positioner that can comfort, protect, and stabilize the Lower extremities as well as facilitate turning for non-operative hip management. Heel-A-Hip® narrow stabilizes and prevents heel pressure for supine, lying patients.
Although surgery is typically the best method of treatment for hip fractures, some indications for the non-surgical options are:
- Patients who present late with a fracture that has begun to heal or are moribund
- Lack prospects for any functional recovery and inability to reach post op rehabilitation goals, including Alzheimer patients
- Those who simply refuse surgery
- Patients with an operative risk, many of whom have multiple comorbidities that may place them at elevated risk for postoperative complications
Nonsurgical Care Plan and Treatment Options for Hip Fractures
- Activity modification
- Non-weight bearing on the affected hip for six weeks or more
- Electronic and Ultrasonic bone stimulation
- Physical therapy
- Pain medication
- Heel-A-Hip® Narrow