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What should I do if my child breaks a bone or dislocates a joint? A broken bone or dislocated joint is a serious injury that requires a doctor's immediate attention. The best thing you can do is protect the injured area, making sure your child doesn't worsen the damage. Fractures are breaks, cracks, or chips in a bone. A fractured bone that pierces through the skin is called an open fracture. ...
- Peter Jaret
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How can my diet help me stave off osteoporosis? The foods you eat can work to keep your bones strong as you age, and some can even help you replace lost bone mass. If you're a woman, you're at particularly high risk for osteoporosis, the brittle-bones disease. After menopause, declining estrogen stores cause women to start losing bone at a rate of about 3 percent a year. Eighty percent of those...
- Laird Harrison
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What is osteoporosis? If you thought that shrinking and stooped shoulders were an inevitable part of your golden years, there's good news. As it turns out, those phenomena are due to a bone disease called osteoporosis -- and it's largely preventable. Osteoporosis is a thinning and weakening of the bones that strikes many women after menopause, as well as some older men. The disease makes your bo...
- Paige Bierma and Chris Woolston
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Do I need to take medications for osteoporosis? If you're over 50, there's a good chance that your bones need help. Over half of all Americans in their 50s and older have osteoporosis, a condition that robs bones of calcium and other minerals, leaving bones weak, brittle, and vulnerable to breaks. The body engages in a continuous process of building and removing bone tissue to maintain a healthy ...
- Chris Woolston
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It's a familiar complaint: Men receive better medical care than women. Research has shown, for instance, that male heart attack victims are given more aggressive therapy than female heart attack patients. The problem has been blamed on bias -- doctors tend to think of heart attacks as a predominantly male problem. But a new study suggests that men may also be undertreated for conditions associated...
- Timothy Gower
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Under certain conditions, one or more vertebrae can start to crack under the weight of the spine. This is called a compression fracture. As painful as it is, a compression fracture doesn't have to be a debilitating injury. With proper treatment, most people can either recover completely or keep their symptoms under control. What causes compression fractures? If your bones are young and healthy,...
- Chris Woolston, M.S.
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- March 11, 2013
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How can I prevent fractures? If osteoporosis has started to thin your bones, even a simple fall or twist can have devastating consequences. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, 10 million people have osteoporosis, and almost 34 million more have low bone mass, which places them at risk for fractures. Indeed, one out of two women over 50 -- and one out of four men -- will suffer ost...
- Beth Witrogen and Chris Woolston, M.S.
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- March 11, 2013
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Why do I need vitamin D? Vitamin D -- also called the sunshine vitamin because your body makes it naturally when exposed to sunlight -- is perhaps best known for its ability to help build strong bones. Children with a serious shortfall of vitamin D can develop rickets, a condition that deforms growing bones. But even if you get enough vitamin D to avoid rickets, you may not have enough for optim...
- Chris Woolston, M.S.
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- March 11, 2013
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Exercise used to be off-limits to people with hemophilia. As late as the early 1960s, doctors worried that something as gentle as walking or a jog through the park could trigger internal bleeding. Today, people with hemophilia are hitting the gyms and playing just about everything except rough contact sports. They're having fun, staying fit, and enjoying all of the other standard benefits of exerc...
- Chris Woolston
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- March 11, 2013
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