Bone_Loss_Conditions,_Prevention,_Treatment

Bone Loss Conditions, Prevention, Treatment Bone loss conditions, prevention and treatment This essay will address several types of bone loss diseases and the pros and cons of treatment or prevention techniques. I will first explore what the characteristics of healthy bone are and what the loss of bone mass and density can mean to a person's health and well being. My sources will be from the internet, magazines, medical journals, several books, and the1998 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. I have a personal interest in this subject because my paternal Grandmother and Grandfather suffered before they died with some of the debilitating symptoms of bone loss and weakening. This included spinal fractures and posture slumping. Some of the prevention methods I will mention are exercise, diet, and drugs. I will talk about the use of estrogen replacement therapy and vitamins in the prevention of osteoporosis and their possible benefits and side effects. I will discuss the difference between osteoporosis and osteoarthritis as well as touch on some conditions in which the pain can be mistaken for them. My experience with a friend who has been crippled with arthritis since she was a child will open some topics for discussion. She has suffered several severe broken bone situations bone, estrogens, estrogen, therapy, osteoporosis, mg, women, effects, calcium, risk, endometrial, replacement, esterified, bones, fractures, fracture, estradiol, study, months, disease, been, lipid, levels, hyperplasia, group, dose, 0625, plasma, increased, treatment, osteoarthritis, loss, after, unopposed, studies, postmenopausal