Osteoporosis treatment and medication available today

People with osteoporosis face a higher risk of fractures or broken bones. Fortunately, several options for osteoporosis treatment can help manage your condition.

Preventing osteoporosis is not always possible, and several risk factors cannot be controlled. You can reduce the risk by:

• Taking nutritional supplements: To prevent low bone density, your doctor may recommend specific supplements such as calcium supplements and vitamin D.

• Getting regular physical activity: Exercises with resistance bands, dumbbells, or resistance machines cause muscles to push against bones, which encourages the body to form new bone tissue.

• Quitting smoking: Smoking reduces the body's calcium absorption, which is vital for healthy bones.

For severe osteoporosis, medication can help slow and even stop bone loss.

Osteoporosis is a bone disease that occurs when the body loses too much bone, makes too little bone, or both. The inside of healthy bones is porous and has small spaces. Osteoporosis increases the size of these spaces, leading to the loss of bone density and strength.

Talk to one of our board-certified doctors if you have any warning signs of osteoporosis, such as:

• A bone fracture (i.e., hip fracture) after age 50

• Stooped posture

• Use of medications that cause bone thinning

• A family history of related fracture