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What is Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a process in the body where calcium is lost from the matrix of the bones making them more susceptible to breakages and fractures. As you age, your body’s ability to increase bone mass slows down. After your mid-thirties, it becomes easier to lose bone than to build it. Then sometime in your forties or fifties, you gradually start to lose more bone mass than your body produces. This gradual weakening over time makes your bones less dense, and more brittle and fragile – and the result is osteoporosis.
Regardless of age and sex, osteoporosis and osteopenia, which refers to early signs of bone density loss, can have a profound impact on quality of life. Osteoporosis can make coughing, standing, sitting, or lifting things a chore and extremely painful; every day errands can lead to debilitating fractures. And unfortunately, warning signs of osteoporosis are usually very subtle. You may not even know you have osteoporosis until you break a bone. Often the first sign of osteoporosis is pain in the back resulting from a compression fracture to the vertebrae (the bones that make up your spine). Fracturing of the hip or wrist even after a light fall is another definitive sign of osteoporosis. Prior to breaking a bone, the only way to check if you are suffering from osteoporosis is to have a bone density scan.
If you are experiencing pain and think it may be from osteoporosis or if you show signs of osteopenia, you should visit your local physician. You can also pay a visit to any local Relax The Back store in Houston for a wide range of lumbar support products to help you manage your osteoporosis pain. Our in-store back care product specialists can do a pain evaluation and, with your doctor’s recommendations in mind, provide you with advice on the best back support products for your pain.
Preventing osteoporosis
The key to managing osteoporosis is prevention. There are many lifestyle choices you can make to prevent premature bone density loss, including increasing your consumption of calcium, getting more Vitamin D, exercising and not excessively drinking alcohol or smoking.
Our highly trained staff at Relax The Back in Houston understand osteoporosis pain. Come into any of our easily accessible Houston stores for expert advice on exercise tips, lifestyle changes and back support products to set you on the road to recovery.
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