Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is degrading of the bones. It happens over time it's not something that happens immediately.

Most people only find out they have Osteoporosis when they actually break a bone which may well be the hip bone or possible wrist due to a fall.

you can also have this complaint in your vertebra which would eventually cause you to be in a stooped posture.

The problem is diagnosed when you go to hospital.

Broken Bones

Are often the first signs of this condition when you are older you can have the bent forward posture, this is caused when the bones in the spine have broken and you have difficulty supporting the weight of your body.

There is medication that you can take to help strengthen your bones.

If you look at the causes of bone degradation you will see that one of the main factors is having an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia on top of which a low body mass index and not exercising regularly will contribute.

To determine whether you have this condition or not you can have a bone density scan which will measure your bone strength.

The result can be measured against a healthy body and the difference can be calculated and is called a standard deviation and is know as the T score.

I do not intend to go into this condition in detail here since I am not a medical man and it is much better if you follow one of the two links below.

Either the Mayo clinic which is in the United States or the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, they will better explain this bone condition, it's diagnosis and treatment, than I can so please follow the links.

NHS - Bone Disease
Care at Mayo Clinic
You may also like to look at the Royal Osteoporosis Society