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OSTEOPOROSIS: DEFINITION AND DEVELOPMENT

Osteoporosis is a "reduction of the total mass of bone, with the remaining bone being fragile or 'brittle'" (Kirschmann, 1989, p. 155). Osteo refers to bone, while porosis indicates porosity (Berger, 1987). Symptoms of osteoporosis include "increased incidence of fracture, pains in the hip and back, and reduced height" (Kirschmann, 1989, p. 155). Osteoporosis develops most frequently in (1) persons over the age of 50 years, primarily menapausal women (Kirschmann, 1989), (2) women generally, but primarily menapausal (Berger, 1987), (3) people who are smallboned and fairskinned (Berger, 1987), and (4) people of Northern European, Japanese, and Chinese origin (Berger, 1987).

Major causes of osteoporsis are (1) an inadequate intake of calcium over a long period of time (Abravanel, 1985), and (2) an inability of the body to absorb calcium through the intestine (Kirschmann, 1989). Other causes included (1) a calcium

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orus, magnesium, and flouride are also important elements of orthomolecular nutritional therapy for osteporosis (Berger, 1987; Kirschmann, 1989). Orthomolecular is effective in both the prevention and the threatment of osteoporosis (Berger, 1987; Kirschmann, 1989). Physical therapy may be as simple and as nonintrusive as an exercise regimen, or it may be as potentially dangerous and as intrusive as surgery. In its nonintrusive forms, physical therapy is useful in both the prevention and the treatment of osteoporosis. In its intrusive form, surgery, its usefulness is confined to treatment. A study in the mid1980s compared the results of two therapeutic approaches to the treatment of osteoporosis (Mackenzie, 1985). The two therapies were (1) orthomolecular nutritional therapy, and (2) physical therapy. This study was based on a randomly selected sample of 60 persons who were classified according to independent and intervening variables related to (1) therapy (physical or nutritional), (2) treatment 10condition (osteoporosis or psychological), (3) longevity of problem (more than fiveyears or fiveyears or less), (4) impact of problem (loss of worktime or no loss of worktime), and (5) duration of therapy (subject con
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