If you need treatment, your doctor can suggest the safest and most effective treatment plan for you. Osteoporosis is known as 'the silent condition' as it has no symptoms and you can’t feel your bones getting weaker. This means that osteoporosis usually goes undetected until you break a bone.

Family history. Having a parent or sibling with osteoporosis puts you at greater risk, especially if your mother or father fractured a hip.Osteoporosis is not usually painful until a bone is broken, but broken bones in the spine are a common cause of long-term pain. If your doctor suspects you have osteoporosis, they can work out your future risk of breaking a bone using an online programme, such as FRAX or Q-Fracture. Thyroid problems. Too much thyroid hormone can cause bone loss. This can occur if your thyroid is overactive or if you take too much thyroid hormone medicine to treat an underactive thyroid. Treatment for osteoporosis is based on treating and preventing broken bones, and taking medicine to strengthen your bones.

The Royal Osteoporosis Society's free telephone helpline may be particularly helpful if you're newly diagnosed with osteoporosis. They work by slowing down the rate at which your bones are broken down and speeding up the rate at which your cells build bone. They're given by injection every month or every few months.Is there evidence of transfer of material from the offender to the grave or victim (e.g. fibres from clothing), or ‘foreign’ items in the fill? I thought to myself, ‘Oh my god, all this has to change ... everything is so worn, and I’m going to fix it.’”

Keeping a healthy body weight can help to keep your bones healthy. Low body weight means you'll likely have smaller bones, which tend to be more fragile. It also means there's not a lot of body fat and muscle to protect you if you fall. a hysterectomy (removal of the womb) before the age of 45, particularly when the ovaries are also removed Raloxifene is the only type of SERM available for treating osteoporosis. It's only recommended for women, after the menopause. It's taken as a daily tablet. Despite the use of the words rag and bone, these industrious individuals were always on the lookout for metals of any kind. It produced a higher value per pound than most other materials they collected, and it didn't rot or smell. An 1836 edition of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal describes how "street-grubbers" would scrape out the dust and dirt between paving stones in the road looking for discarded or lost horseshoe nails. They were also especially keen to find brass, copper and pewter as this could be worth up to 5 pence per pound which was considerably better than the couple of pence they'd get from rags, cloth and bone. The new episode is live! We're at the cathedral of Bronze Age Britain: Stonehenge. You can listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/old-bones/id1476327496

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Bone pain is the most common symptom of bone cancer. Some people experience other symptoms as well. Bone pain You may also be prescribed calcium and vitamin D supplements to take at a different time to the bisphosphonate. Our new episode is live! We're talking about the Amesbury Archer, the King of Stonehenge. When I first started planning Old Bones, the Amesbury Archer was the first name on the sheet, he's a fascinating character, the richest bronze age burial, buried as Stonehenge was reaching its peak. ⠀ Exercise can help you build strong bones and slow bone loss. Exercise will benefit your bones no matter when you start, but you'll gain the most benefits if you start exercising regularly when you're young and continue to exercise throughout your life. Some people also experience swelling and redness (inflammation) or notice a lump on or around the affected bone.

People are excited by dragons, they are excited by aliens in outer space … but the difference with dinosaurs is that yes, they part of another world but this stuff is real.Weight-bearing exercises are the best for your bones. These exercises involve standing up and moving your feet and legs – for example, brisk walking, dancing and running. This week we are looking at two words which may be confused by learners of English: produce and product. Improve your English with Collins.