what is osteoporosis?
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Osteoporosis is a disease of bone in which bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced and bone microarchitecture is disrupted. Osteoporotic bones are susceptible to fracture. Osteoporosis is defined as either a bone mineral density 2.5 standard deviations below peak bone mass (20-year-old person standard) as measured by DEXA or any fragility fracture. While treatment modalities are becoming available, prevention is still the most important way to reduce fracture. Due to its hormonal component, more women suffer from osteoporosis than men.
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Yes, there are certain medications that can actually increase your bone thickness.  But I think prevention is always better!
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hullo\nostiosites are calcium accumulations on bony sites as the joints,due to previous trauma or aging process.\ncan be treated by surgery or physiotherapy.\n\n\nDr.solo
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Atrophy is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body. Causes of atrophy include poor nourishment, poor circulation, loss of hormonal support, loss of nerve supply to the target organ, disuse or lack of exercise, or disease intrinsic to the tissue itself. Hormonal and nerve inputs that maintain an organ or body part are referred to as trophic.\n\nAtrophy is a general physiological process of reabsorption and breakdown of tissues, involving apoptosis on a cellular level. It can be part of normal body development and homeostatic processes, or as a result of disease. Atrophy resulting from disease of the tissue itself, or loss of trophic support due to other disease is termed pathological atrophy.\n    For other senses of this word, see dementia (disambiguation).\nSenile\nDementia (from Latin de- "apart, away," + mens (genitive mentis) "mind") is progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Particularly affected areas may be memory, attention, language and problem solving, although particularly in the later stages of the condition, affected persons may be disoriented in time (not knowing what day, week, month or year it is), place (not knowing where they are) and person (not knowing who they are). Symptoms of dementia can be classified as either reversible or irreversible depending upon the etiology of the disease. Probably less than 10% of all dementias are reversible. Dementia is a non-specific term that encompasses many disease processes, just as fever is attributable to many etiologies.\n\nCordon may refer to:\n\n    * A cordon is the descriptive term for a particular style of pruning woody plants. Single plants can be pruned to have single or multiple cordons in a number of styles. Plants which are commonly pruned in this manner include grapes, peaches, and other stone fruits.\n    * A cordon is also a line of people, military posts, or ships surrounding an area to close or guard it.\n    * It is also a cord or braid used as a fastening or ornament.\n    * It is also a ribbon worn diagonally across the breast as a badge of honor or decoration.\n    * Cordon is a commune of the Haute-Savoie département in France\n    * Cordon, Isabela, a municipality in the Philippines\n    * In ceramic technology a cordon is a strip of clay added around the outside of a pot for decoration or to help with handling.\n\n The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.\n \nnonchalant\n \nSYLLABICATION:non·cha·lant\nPRONUNCIATION:  nnsh-länt\nADJECTIVE:Seeming to be coolly unconcerned or indifferent. See synonyms at cool.\nETYMOLOGY:French, from Old French, present participle of nonchaloir, to be unconcerned : non-, non- + chaloir, to cause concern to (from Latin calre, to be warm, heat up; see kel-1 in Appendix I).\nOTHER FORMS:noncha·lantly —ADVERB\nWORD HISTORY:A nonchalant person is not likely to become warm or heated about anything, a fact that is underscored by the etymology of the word nonchalant. It stems from Old French, where it was formed from the negative prefix non– plus chalant, the present participle of the verb chaloir, “to be concerned.” This in turn came from the Latin word calre, which from its concrete sense “to be hot or warm” developed the figurative sense “to be roused or fired with hope, zeal, or anger.” French formed a noun nonchalance from the adjective nonchalant that was borrowed into English by 1678; the adjective itself was borrowed later, as it is not attested for another half-century.
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http://www.ivy-rose.co.uk/Topics/Skeletal_Disorders.htm
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Do you have osteoporosis?  Some people loose calcium and bone mass density.  They get what is called a "pathological fracture".  This can happen just with strenuous exercise.  I'd ask your doctor if a bone density test is right for you.  Medications can be given to replace calcium AND prevent calcium loss, if this is the problem.  (Can affect both women AND men)
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It is when the density of your bone degenerates.  Added calcium (Tums is a good calcium supplement) will help to prevent further degeneration.
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One bone density test is an xray of the hips and back. It is good to have one taken just before menopause for comparison later. If the bone density is slightly low, they call it osteopenia. There is also an ultrasound that can be done to the ankle. A result less than -1 is psteopenia and should be treated to avoid broken bones later. Ther are several products on the market now with perscription that  put calcium back into the bones.
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They change your hormone levels. A doctor told me once that doing this for extended periods of time can lead to  brittle bones in later life. You should get proper medical advice if you are going to  muck around with your hormones. It can make you very sick.
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It is well established that estrogen replacement during menopause protects bone mass and helps protect against the risk of osteoporotic fractures. The accelerated bone loss during menopause has little relationship to the amount of calcium intake. After age 60, however, the proper attention to calcium intake is very important and has been shown to increase bone density. An important study published in 1992 showed that elderly women who took supplemental dietary calcium (with vitamin D) had a 30% less fractures (including hip fractures) than similar women who did not take supplemental calcium. When these investigators looked at these women again 3 years later, they still had a significantly less rate of fractures, and, they had a 15 % decreased chance of death. Most endocrinologists feel that the use of calcium supplements are safe (and inexpensive) and recommend it to most (all?) elderly men and women unless specific contraindications exist. it helps to take calcium with vitman d in them ..
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X-Ray I have osteoporosis and have broken countless major bone and often didn't know it until I was X-Rayed days late. Last year I literally shattered my kneecap in Too many fragments to count and I wouldn't have even known if I had not said something to the Dr. for an unrelated visit.
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First, tell her to stop taking her calcium. It is a common misconception that taking calcium supplements will help with bone loss in women. The opposite is actually true. Cultures that don't drink milk, take calcium supplements and only ingest 100 mg of calcium from vegetables a day - like China - have no word for "osteoporosis."  Calcium is used by every muscle cell in the body to contract, and magnesium to relax. Add a magnesium, if you like, and it would be a great idea for her to eliminate dairy and wheat for a week or two to see if she improves. You might be suprised that it works quite well.
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Rickets is a disease in which the bones soften. It is caused by a severe vitamin D deficiency. Rickets is often characterized by bowleggedness & most often seen in children. With the addition of vitamins to our food, children in the United States rarely get the disease anymore. The risk comes to those that live in 3rd world & developing countries.\n\nOsteoporosis, however, is a degenerative bone disorder. In other words, there is loss of bone tissue so that the bones become brittle as they become more hollow.
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osteoclasts break down bone, osteoctyes rejuvenate the bone.\nMultinucleation just the nature of the osteoclasts, just like a macrophage ( a large white blood cell that is multinucleated). However, each nucleus has the same genetic code.
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Ossification is the formation of bone. In the long bones it occurs through bone replacing cartilage. The epiphyseal plate is the location where cartilage is being replaced by bone as the bone is growing.
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While osteoporosis occurs in men and pre-menopausal women, the problem is overwhelmingly prevalent in postmenopausal women.\n\nIOW, it has little to do with Calcium deficiency.  Calcium may help, but it's not a cause.
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Osteocytes are replenished by the blood flow into your red bone marrow.