If you have unprovoked low back pain and back pain, you unconsciously become shorter, hug your child, touch the furniture slightly, or even sneeze... In the case of fractures, the bones become "crispy", and these symptoms may indicate that your bone mass is being lost.
In order to reduce the harm of osteoporosis, on the morning of March 8, the Department of Spine Surgery of Yongchuan Hospital affiliated to the Heavy Medical Center carried out the Beautiful Goddess Festival Bone Health respect action in the hospital square, providing professional consultation for the general public and friends free of charge on the spot, and "bone" strength for health.
About 150 copies of 5 kinds of osteoporosis data were distributed at the event site, about 150 people participated in the activity, and about 100 people completed the free screening of ultrasound bone density.
The Department of Spine Surgery of Yongchuan Hospital affiliated to the Heavy Medical Center established a geriatric bone disease - osteoporosis sub-professional group in 2021, and in 2021, more than 2,000 patients with osteoporosis were treated in outpatient clinics, accounting for 15% of the annual outpatient visits, nearly 1,400 admissions throughout the year, and osteoporosis patients accounted for 47% of the annual admissions, Director Shao Gaohai led the spine surgery department to divide the elderly bone disease sub-professional group, with Deputy Chief Physician Qu Yiming as the medical team leader, standardizing the treatment of osteoporosis patients around the year. Qu Yiming introduced that calcium supplementation is the most common way to prevent osteoporosis, and people who are older or have chronic diseases need special calcium supplements. But can not be a "calcium" and talk about, in addition to calcium supplementation, but also vitamin D supplementation. At the same time, osteoporosis treatment drugs also include: bone resorption inhibitor bone (bisphosphates), bone formation promoters, bone metabolism regulators (calcium, active vitamin D), of which bisphosphonate is the first choice for osteoporosis treatment drugs.
Shao Gaohai said: "Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease in middle-aged and elderly people, especially women, and is one of the important causes of fractures. As the mainland enters an aging society, the impact of osteoporosis on public health is becoming more and more serious. Osteoporosis comes from the "quiet", perhaps we have not noticed the symptoms with the gradual loss of bone joint pain throughout the body, if we are not careful, there will be problems such as fractures. ”
Li Bo introduced: With the acceleration of the aging process of society, the incidence of osteoporosis is on the rise. In the elderly who have vertebral fractures and hip fractures, about 12%-20% of cases are fatal, 10% of patients die within 3 months of surgery or postoperative complications, and 20% die within one year due to reasons such as decreased resistance. Only half of the hip fracture patients survived for more than a year, 21% required crutches to walk, and 25% were incapacitated. Osteoporosis poses a serious threat to public health and places a heavy financial burden on patients, so the disease has been called the "killer of silence." ”
Shao Gaohai reminded that based on the current situation of osteoporosis diseases in the mainland, it is necessary to strengthen the awareness of the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis among middle-aged and elderly people, so as to achieve early prevention, early examination and early treatment to reduce the harm caused by osteoporosis. (Textu/Hu Xueyin, Guo Linling)