Femur Fracture

The femur is the strongest, longest, and most powerful bone in your body. It carries your entire weight, it transfers every force from the pelvis into movement, it is the pillar on which your forward motion rests. A person can sustain many fractures and keep going. But a broken femur brings them to a standstill. They can no longer stand. They can no longer walk. They lie down.

That is no small thing. A femur fracture is a massive experience — physically and emotionally. It takes enormous force to break this bone: a fall from height, a car accident, in older people often an unlucky movement landing on an already weakened skeleton. Whatever the external occasion — your body was struck in an area that stands for groundedness, self-propelled movement, and self-assertion.