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Your Guide to Strong Bones.
A patient-focused tool emphasizing the significance of nutrition and exercises for enhancing stability and strength.
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Provincial Impact Data Infographics
Updates coming soon.
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Too Fit to Fracture.
A two page summary of the 2023 recommendations on exercise for fall and fracture prevention.
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Presentations
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Local Bone Health Events
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Media
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Fragility Fractures
Are broken bones that happen spontaneously or as a result of normal daily activities or a fall from standing height or less.
Fragility fractures are the most serious sign of osteoporosis
A fragility fracture should trigger a Bone Mineral Density Test (BMD)
- Fragility fractures are responsible for excess mortality, morbidity, chronic pain, admission to institutions and economic costs1-3
- Those with hip or vertebral fractures have substantially increased risk of death after the fracture2
- Multiple vertebral fractures can cause significant pain, anxiety, depression, reduced pulmonary function and agitation4
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Hip Fractures
One in three hip fracture patients re-fracture at one year and over 1 in 2 will suffer another fracture within 5 years.
40% of people who fracture a hip had a prior (non-hip) fracture - which was not recognized as a warning sign of osteoporosis
Only 44% of hip fracture patients discharged from hospital go home.
28% of women and 37% of men with osteoporosis related hip fractures will die of complications the following year
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Height loss = Early warning signs
All men and women 50+ should have annual height measurements
- ¾” in one year (~ 2cm)
- 2 ½” since young adulthood (~ 6 cm)
Should trigger a SPINAL X-RAY and assessment for osteoporosis
Spinal Fractures can result in:
back pain, depression, height loss, protruding abdomen, reduced lung function,
weight loss, sleep disturbance, impaired activities of daily living