ORTHOPEDICS/OSTEOPOROSIS
Osteoporosis/Bone disease
Osteoporosis is a bone disease resulting from an amplified supporting a crack.
All the body’s bones in the body can be affected by Osteoporosis.
Measuring the bone density is the first step of an osteoporosis diagnosis.
If osteoporosis diagnosis is positive, therapy is required to alleviate the disorder to avoid future cracks.
Knowing when to perform a bone density test can help diagnose the disorder and starting adequate therapy.
Osteoporosis/Warning Symptoms
A prematured Osteoporosis therapy is better done before any symptoms develop.
Therefore, it is significant to know the risk factors of developing Osteoporosis.
Here are Some warning symptoms:
- Low-Energy Cracks:
Usually a major force causes the bone crack, such as cracks following falls from height, or car booms, or sports damages.
Nevertheless, when a bone crack with minimal force, Osteoporosis should be taken into consideration.
- Unexplained Bone or Joint Pain:
There are many reasons for bone and joint pain, and Osteoporosis is one to these reason.
When the bones weaken to holding the body weight, a damage may happen. Unexpected bone or joint pain should be may considered as a bone health difficulty.
- Height Loss or Slumping:
Spine cracks may be unnoticed or be attributed to a back strain damage.
Losing height or developing a curvature to their spine is the sign of a damage to a multiple vertebrae.
The classic appearance of an individual with compression cracks is a shortness in height with a curved back.
Osteoporosis Risk/Uncontrollable features
You are born or you have developed some uncontrollable features over the time.
Therefore, these features may cause risk factors that you cannot control.
Osteoporosis is one of these features that you should consider to monitoring your bone health.
Here are some of the Osteoporosis uncontrollable risks:
Female sex, Caucasian, Family history of osteoporosis, Age over 65 years, Early menopause (Comprises surgical ovaries removal before age 45), Malabsorption disorders (such as Celiac or Crohn’s Disease), Endocrine disorders (such as Thyroid or Parathyroid Disease), Cancers (such as Myeloma or Lymphoma)
Osteoporosis Risk/ Controllable features
Here are some controllable features that may rise Osteoporosis Risk:
Smoking, Unnecessary alcohol consumption, Poor diet, Insufficient calcium or Vitamin D and Inactivity.
Osteoporosis/Other Risk Factors
There are disorders and some medicines that can increase the chance of developing Osteoporosis, such as stopping a medicine dedicated to relief seizures (Dilantin), Oral steroids (Prednisone), Lithium…