Surgical Treatment of Low Energy Pelvic Fractures in the Elderly

Inclusion Criteria: * Elderly patients (age ≥55y ears) of any ethnic / sociodemographic background * Pelvic ring fracture after low energy trauma affecting the posterior ring or both (posterior and anterior ring) * Surgical stabilisation of the pelvic ring at Basel University Hospital between May 2010 and December 2014 * Ambulatory before surgery * Informed consent for study participation by the patient or legal representatives Exclusion Criteria: * Refusal of consent by the patient or legal representatives to participate in the study * Fractures within the last 3 months before follow-up * Suspicion of a pathological fracture in the context of known or unknown malignancy * Symptomatic low back pain with morphological changes, i.e. intervertebral disc displacement, neoplasm metastasis in the axial skeleton, spinal stenosis, vertebral fracture, spondylarthropathy etc. * Pre-trauma mobility status that precludes achieving a post-trauma mobility status enabling the patient to perform the timed up and go test (e.g. patient in a wheel chair)