[Insufficiency fractures of the pelvic ring]

The demographic changes in society automatically lead to an increase in specific diseases and injuries in the older generation. Therefore, the proportion of osteoporotic and fatigue fractures increases in total and also the absolute number of insufficiency fractures of the pelvic ring. In younger people pelvic ring fractures are mostly due high speed trauma. In the elderly this often occurs by low energy trauma or even with no trauma which is then designated as insufficiency fracture. The problematic of such fractures is insufficiently covered in the conventional classification. Conventional radiological diagnostics must often be supplemented by slice imaging procedures. The therapy forms must be more closely adapted to the general condition and physical health of the patient than by classical fractures and the substantially reduced sustainability of osteosynthesis in altered bones must be taken into consideration.