In certain types of femur fractures, your femur has broken, but its pieces still line up correctly. In other types of fractures (displaced fractures), the trauma moves the bone fragments out of alignment. If you fracture your femur, you usually need ORIF to bring your bones back into place and help them heal.

The thigh bone, or femur, is the large upper leg bone that connects the lower leg bones (knee joint) to the pelvic bone (hip joint).

The femur is the longest bone in the body. In fact, it’s the longest of all the long bones (which also include the tibia, fibula, metatarsals, and phalanges in the lower limb and the humerus, radius, ulna, metacarpals, and phalanges in the upper limb).

Recovery most often takes 4 to 6 months. The length of your recovery will depend on how severe your fracture is, whether you have skin wounds, and how severe they are. Recovery also depends on whether your nerves and blood vessels were injured, and what treatment you had.

This corresponded to 12 weeks after surgery for extra-articular fractures and 18 weeks after intra-articular injuries. Thus, it can be recommended to resume driving 6 weeks after full-weight bearing on the right lower limb is achieved.

Currently, the method most surgeons use for treating femoral shaft fractures is intramedullary nailing. During this procedure, a specially designed metal rod is inserted into the canal of the femur. The rod passes across the fracture to keep it in position.

Men tend to want a woman no taller than 6 feet, while women want a man no shorter than 5 feet 4 inches. The survey also finds that for the average British man, a partner becomes too short at 4’11” and too tall at 6′. The ideal height for a woman, according to the average man, is 5’6”.