Treatment of pregnant patients with bone and joint injuries complicated, requires team of physicians
Monday, May 1, 2017 - 13:32
in Health & Medicine
Nearly one in 1,000 pregnant women in the United States suffer bone and joint injuries due to car crashes, domestic violence, drug or alcohol use, or osteoporosis. The stage of a woman's pregnancy -- how her body may have changed during the course of the pregnancy -- needs to be factored into the mother and fetus' orthopedic trauma care.