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Osteoporosis
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This research provides an overview of the development, prevention, detection, and treatment of osteoporosis. An emphasis is placed on the consideration of natural and drugless therapies for the prevention and treatment of the condition. The following section defines osteoporosis, and traces its development. This discussion of osteoporosis is then followed by a review of detection procedures. Lastly, natural and drug less therapies for its prevention and treatment are reviewed. OSTEOPOROSIS: DEFINITION AND DEVELOPMENT Osteoporosis is a "reduction of the total mass of bone, with the remaining bone being fragile or 'brittle'" (Kirsch mann, 1989, p. 155). Osteo refers to bone, while porosis indi cates porosity (Berger, 1987). Symptoms of osteoporosis include "increased incidence of fracture, pains in the hip and back, and reduced height" (Kirschmann, 1989, p. 155). Osteo porosis 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 small boned and fair skinned (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 cal cium
orus, magnes ium, 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 non intrusive as an exercise regimen, or it may be as potentially dangerous and as intrusive as surgery. In its non intrusive 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 mid 1980s compared the results of two therapeutic approaches to the treatment of osteoporosis (Mac kenzie, 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 five years or five years or less), (4) impact of problem (loss of work time or no loss of work time), and (5) duration of therapy (subject con
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TREATMENT OSTEOPOROSIS, Bone Mass, Therapy______________ Orthomolecular, Japanese Chinese, Trabecular Bone, DEVELOPMENT Osteoporosis, Therapies Drug, Invasive Procedure, , Invasive Procedures, bone mass, johnston 1987, berger 1987, trabecular bone, bone mass loss, photon absorptiometry, kirschmann 1989, mass loss, nutritional therapy, treatment osteoporosis, physical therapy, orthomolecular nutritional therapy, rate bone mass, appendicular bone mass, therapies prevention treatment,
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