Posts Tagged ‘Fragility’
How is Osteoporosis? .
Osteoporosis has no symptoms, it does not hurt or cause any change in itself. However, the extreme fragility occur in bone, appear with great frequency bone fractures, which are what determine the symptoms in these patients. The most common fractures in osteoporosis in postmenopausal women are vertebral fractures, which produce very sharp pains in the back and condition the progressive appearance of deformities of the same, fundamentally progressive decrease in size by crushing vertebrae. This pain can give way to a more continuous dull pain produced by micro fractures, and often is the symptom leading to diagnosis. Osteoporosis of the elderly typically occurs in long bone fractures, especially in the wrist, and even more in the femur, being responsible for the typical hip fractures in the elderly. Read the rest of this entry »