Anatom3DPelvic girdle
Cingulum pelvicum · Pánevní pletenec
Skeleton
Looks like
Two broad hip bones joined to the sacrum in a ring, wider and rounder in women.
What it does
Transfers weight from the spine to the legs and shelters the pelvic organs.
Keeping it well
Strength and balance work, enough calcium and vitamin D. A hip fracture after a fall needs surgery within a day or two.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Axial spondyloarthritis
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Brucellosis
- Developmental dysplasia of the hip
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Gout
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Lyme disease
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Obstructed labour and obstetric fistula
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pilonidal sinus
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoma
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency