What is osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis describes a reduction of bone and a deterioration of bone quality, the entire skeleton of the people can relate to. With the achievement of the 35th Age, the content of Calziummineralien constantly declined in the bone. For women, this is accelerating the degradation caused by natural hormonal transition into menopause dramatically. In conjunction with reduced physical activity and diet may be unilateral, therefore, the basis for subsequent development of a pronounced osteoporosis should be created. Basis of osteoporosis is an imbalance of increased bone resorption and decreased bone formation. This is the stability and elasticity of the bone is reduced. It is pronounced in cases of vertebral fractures or other fractures in the skeletal system with low or just everyday stress. Common consequences of osteoporosis are fractures. Sorted by frequency, these are:
- Vertebral fractures (sintering)
- Near hip femoral fractures (neck leg fracture)
- Near Spoke wrist fractures (distal radius fracture)
- Upper head fracture (subcapitale Humerusfraktur)
- Pelvic fracture
Links of healthy bone, osteoporotic bone right
What can I do against osteoporosis?
The interplay between bone formation and degradation is very complex. So give often declining estrogen levels, decreased intake of calcium and vitamin D and decreased physical activity hands. Therefore, either more bone resorption to slow or to promote bone formation. Must be stressed that any use of drugs by sufficient physical activity and exercise should be supported. Other hand, harmful habits such as excessive consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and coffee can be reduced. Moreover, the other doctor Osteoporosis favorable disease (hyperthyroidism, hormonproduzierende certain tumors, kidney disease or disorders of the gastrointestinal tract) or to exclude women from the start of menopause, and presence of risk factors for osteoporosis, a hormone treatment to consider. In advanced disease can also calcitonin and Biphosphonate be given.
How can you determine osteoporosis?
In addition to the medical consultation regarding lifestyle, existing illnesses and family history, is an X-ray of the affected skeletal region and a bone density test (densitometry) of the bone using computed tomography is required. These procedures are simple and painless to implement and allow the information pertaining to the necessity and extent of drug therapy. Furthermore, an estimation can be in terms of fracture risk should be facilitated.
What forms of therapy can be a pain relief in vertebral fractures provide?
Vertebral fractures are among the most common fractures in osteoporosis. In addition to falls may be more pronounced osteoporosis also a Bagatelltrauma or no accident causing a spinal fracture. Also affected vertebral bodies can be composed in slow decline. All common forms is a visible decrease in body size and the emergence of a curved, bumpy attitude. Unfortunately, however, consider these changes usually severe back pain after that. These can be obtained by conservative measures such as painkillers, osteoporosis medications and supplies to some corset improve. Through the development of Kyphoplastie, an operation that collapsed vertebral again erected, however, is a small revolution occurred. It is now possible, fresh fractured vertebra by injecting bone cement back into their old, original height rebuild. The immobilization of back pain will disappear. Nor can old vertebral fractures with this procedure and endangered fragile vertebrae stabilized. In our clinical practice in this case, the latest generation of these operations, which Vesselplastie to apply.
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