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Osteoporosis Treatment

Posted: March 16th 2010 By Dr.S.Sivaraman       under: Diseases and Conditions    Tags: , ,

Osteoporosis Treatment

Osteoporosis is a disease that mainly occurs to the woman because of lack of calcium in the body. It can be classified as low bone mass, and low bone tissue that leads to weak and fragile bone.

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According to world health organization report it affects mainly the elderly woman who gets the menopause.

They estimated some of the calculation according to which 14% of the people are affected at the age of 50-59, 22% of the women are affected at the age of 60-69 years, 39% of the women are affected by this osteoporosis at the age of 70-79. Mainly Asian groups and the white people are affected by these disease.

Causes for the disease

Osteoporosis occurs because there is a clash between new bone formation and the old bone restoration. This makes the body not to produce new bone formation. Minerals that are  essential for our bone functioning is calcium and phosphate and these minerals act as fuel to the body bones to perform their daily activities also these two minerals are very much needed for the functioning of the heart. Patients who are suffering from osteoporosis will suffer bone tissue problem, bone production and problem in the body. Weak bones may break easily because lack of calcium in the body.

Indication of osteoporosis

There are other problems like lack of muscle, bone cancer and genetic disorder may also cause this disease.Osteophorosis is inter related to this disease so it is classified diseased person should be aware by consulting the doctor also frequent general check up is necessary.

Some of the risk factors of osteoporosis

1.    Compare  to man ,woman  is having greater risk  of having osteoporosis  because woman  who  becomes old naturally their body lacks calcium and that’s the main problem. so calcium and phosphate deficiency  should be taken in to account by consuming calcium rich foods and also supplement tablets can also be taken to stop this disease

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2.    Woman from the Asian or gin or from the white or gin has more possibility of acquiring this disease will be greater when compared to African females.

3.    People who are smoking cigarette and also people addict to alcohol can also affected by this disease.

4.    Arthritis is another kind of bone marrow disease which is similar to this disease which can make a possibility for the people prone to attack by osteoporosis.

5.    Osteoporosis also comes through genitival so it cannot be stopped for a person when the family is affected by this disease.

The main symptom of this disease is back pain and neck pain so people should aware that when they notice this type of problem in their body. Proper treatment should be taken when the person is affected by this kind of disease. The problem is very severe because breaking of bones is very dangerous as bones are very much essential for the body without bones we cannot do anything. Basic function that the body performs will be stopped. So treatment which is regular is the only way to cure osteoporosis. Bone density screening is the best treatment for this disease because without this test nothing is possible to recover from pain .This treatment exactly locate the area were people is affected  by this kind of disease  tracing the injury parts and giving necessary treatment  is the first aid for osteoporosis.

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Treatment

Treatment for osteoporosis is a huge process which has several machines involved in testing by measuring bone density which will not give any pain to the patient. Central machines are one type which is having job by measuring hip, spine, and also total body.

pheripheral machine is used to measure the finger, wrist, and knee, shine bones.
DXA is a type of x-ray that is widely used in this risk increasing disease. DXA means dual energy x ray absorptiometry which measure certain parts like spine, hip, total body. SXA means single energy x-ray absorptiometry this device is used to measure small parts like bone, density of small bones, heels of the toe, shine in the main parts of the body. By measuring these parts we can understand how much area is affected by this disease.

Proper treatment should be taken to stop this bone disorder because without proper treatment it cannot be cured so people should be aware of this disease that is very much necessary to escape from this dreadful disease. Osteophorosis is a disease that cannot be cured by not taking calcium and phosphate. These two minerals are very much necessary for our body because new bones formation cannot take place without  calcium and phosphate  and these are very much necessary for the functioning  of the heart. Heart is very important internal organ without functioning of heart life cannot go forward so proper foods having calcium and phosphate is very much needed and also we can take supplements from tablets, tonics having this content.

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1.     Treatment for osteoporosis is nothing but slowing down or stopping the mineral loss and also bone density can be increased and also preventing fractures.

2.    People at the young age should take proper food that should contain calcium. Minimum 1000mg should be consumed daily with the diet by taking milk daily and also taking fruits like dates having calcium in rich composition.

3.    Exercise is very much essential for all people including elderly people and to stop osteoporosis yoga, aerobics, walking, running etc must be done.

4.    If one person suspects that he is affected by this disease he or she, should consult doctor who should be specialized in taking care of osteoporosis and they are known as orthopedic surgeon.

5.    This dreadful disease can be prevented by doing regular exercise and also regular diet control by taking only foods that is very good for health because taking tasty junk foods leads to over weight and also it causes disease like pressure, sugar,

osteoporosis because these food contains only fat nothing is present like essential vitamins, minerals etc because they are very much needed for us. So life style modification leads to this kind of disease for people.

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