Why should you be concerned about Osteoporosis
Channel: IMPractitioners
Date: 2011-06-24

http://preventosteoporosis-improveyourbones.com/why-should-you-be-concerned-about-osteoporosis/   Initially, as bone thins, its loss rarely produces any symptoms)—for which reason, osteoporosis has been called "the silent disease," but this is part of the problem! For many, the first symptom is a broken bone or an alarming DEXA test. As the disease progresses, if symptoms occur, they can include:

    * Backache
    * Neck pain
    * Muscle pain
    * Bone tenderness

Late symptoms include:

    * Severe backache in either the upper or lower regions of the back
    * Loss of height
    * Sudden back pain with a cracking sound indicating vertebral (spinal bone) fracture

Fractures, especially of the hip, arm or wrist, occurring during normal daily activity or with minor injury, such as slipping and falling  Spinal deformities)—a stooped posture or hunchback, resulting from loss of bone mass and/or from multiple vertebral compression fractures

What Are My Chances of Recovering from a Hip Fracture Due to Osteoporosis?
Nearly one-third of all women and one-sixth of all men will suffer an osteoporotic hip fracture. The most catastrophic of fractures, hip fracture leads to death in 12--20% of cases and long-term nursing home care for over 50% of those who survive. Men fare even worse than women after a hip fracture: a woman's risk of death doubles, a man's risk more than triples. For virtually everyone who suffers an osteoporotic hip fracture, life never returns to "normal."

This is something you definitely want to prevent, and fortunately, you can, but not by relying on the patent medicines (also called "pharmaceuticals"
and/or "drugs") prescribed to prevent osteoporosis.

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