Tag: what is Osteoporosis

General Info About Osteoporosis

3 September, 2009 (14:00) | Health | By: webadmin

Osteoporosis means ‘porous bone’. With this disease bones lose density and become more fragile with a greater risk of fracturing. Osteoporosis often causes a loss of height and dowager’s hump (a severely rounded upper back). Osteoporosis is a bone-thinning disease that is much more common in women than men. As osteoporosis advances, serious complications, including [...]

Osteoporosis and Back Pain

24 June, 2008 (05:02) | Health | By: webadmin

Osteoporosis causes back pain, since it affects the joints, lumbar, thoracic, and so on. The common symptoms of Osteoporosis are weakness, joint pain, back pain, height loss, unsteady gait, Kyphosis, or Dowager’s hump, and so on. Osteoporosis affects the metabolic bones, which leads to dysfunction and results in bone mass reduction and increases in porosity. [...]