Many things can delay healing of bone after fractures. Were you diagnosed with osteoporosis before your hip fracture or at the time you broke it? Sometimes that is the cause of delayed healing. Other causes can include older age, having other health issues like cancer, using steroids for pain management or lung problems, previous radiation therapy and severe arthritis.

Do you have any of those situations?

After my daughter had a severe wrist fracture that refused to heal, a lot of therapies were tried to stimulate the healing , but in the end it just took time - a lot of time (more than a year) because the trauma was severe and she had used a lot of steroids to control asthma throughout her life.

What is the surgeon suggesting as a next step?

PS @dannyandebbie With a partial hip only 5 months old, I don't think inquisitive2 needs to be concerned about chromium and cobalt levels - those were problematic for people who received metal-on-metal implants in the past - where the femur ball and the acetabular cup were both metal - they don't do that any longer, and in a partial, there is no liner placed in the pelvis.