Osteoporosis Medicines: Hormones, SERMs, and Calcitonin
Depending on your needs, your health care provider may prescribe more than one medicine to prevent or treat osteoporosis.
Depending on your needs, your health care provider may prescribe more than one medicine to prevent or treat osteoporosis.
See how to do this exercise to stretch your shoulder muscles.
Learn how to do these exercises to stretch and strengthen your neck muscles.
Learn how to learn this neck exercise to help stretch and strengthen your neck muscles.
These two exercises are done on your hands and knees.
When your neck’s bones, disks, and muscles are in good condition, they allow you to move your head freely and without pain.
These exercises can improve blood flow and help build strength.
These medicines help prevent and treat bone loss. Bisphosphonates are taken in pill form or injected through an iv infusion. Read on for more details.
Bone density testing is safe, quick, easy, and painless. Testing can detect osteoporosis before a fracture happens. It can also predict the risk of future fractures. And testing can measure the response to treatment.
The body is always making and losing (resorbing) bone. This process is called remodeling. Bone-making cells form new bone using calcium and other minerals. These minerals come from the food you eat.