Preventing and Managing Osteoporosis
Contributors: Sarah Hall Gueldner (Editor); Sue, M.D. Burke (Editor); Helen S. Wright (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: June 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780826113184
Subjects: Clinical & Internal Medicine; Nursing; Medical / Nursing; Geriatric Nursing; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Medical; Orthopedics; Gerontology; Gynecology & Obstetrics; Nursing - Gerontology
First sentence: The purpose of this book is to raise awareness and inform front-line health and health-related professionals from across disciplines about the silent but crippling and deadly epidemic of osteoporosis that has been too long dismissed as a normal part of aging.