Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a loss of bone mass that occurs that predisposes people to injuries .Osteoporosis means “porous bone” the normal bone under a microscope appears like a honeycomb. When an individual has osteoporosis the holes and spaces in the honeycomb appear much bigger than they do in a healthy bone. As a result of that the bone become weak and less denser that lead many people to injuries. Osteoporosis is a potential health problem for more than 44 million Americans. About 10 million people in the United States gy have the disease, and about 34 million people 50 years of age and older have osteopenia and are at risk for development of osteoporosis(Ignatavicius 2013). According to research women remain the largest group affected by osteoporosis even though men over 75 have the disease. Osteoporosis results in more than 1.5 million fractures each year. Research have shown that women who experience hip fracture are 4 times more likely to experience another fracture. Nursing home residents fall 11 times more often than their community-dwelling counterparts(Ignatavicius 2013). It is often known as the “silent disease” because the first sign of osteoporosis in most people follows some kind of a fracture. The spine,hip,and wrist are most often at risk, although any bone can fracture (Ignatavicius 2013). Other symptoms include a loss of body height and back pain. The loss of height many individual might state they have gotten shorter within the previous years. Back pain might occur after lifting, bending, or stooping and the pain can be sharp and have an acute onset..Back pain accompanied by tenderness and voluntary restriction of spinal movement suggests one or more compression vertebral fractures, the most common type of osteporotic fracture(Ignatavicius 2013).