Post fracture nutritional care

Nutrition plays an important role in bone health, both for preventing a fracture, or healing of bone after a fracture. Appropriate administration of nutrients such as Calcium, Vitamin D, or macronutrients such as proteins, are crucial to reducing fracture risk.

Inadequate intake of nutrients adversely affects bone healing and raises the risk of a secondary fracture. Therefore, a well-planned nutritional intervention after having the first fracture is essential. 
 

Key Learning Objectives of this course include:

• Identification of fractured patients at risk of malnutrition
• Evaluation of malnutrition severity in various types of fractures
• Review of the various nutritional interventions (dietary, supplements, specific amino acids)
• Review of the outcomes of dietary/supplements intervention in fracture patients (rehabilitation, length of stay, mortality, fracture healing, refracture rates, etc.)
• Overview of how FLS improves nutritional management of patients and reduces secondary fractures
  ... and much more.