Fragility Fracture is a form of osteoporosis and is a fracture that caused by a fall from standing height or less. Standing height is not very high. Normally, our body should be able to sustain a fall from this low height without a fracture. So if there is a fracture after the fall, there must be an underlying cause that makes the bones so fragile to impact, which is osteoporosis. 

According to research by the University of Michigan, statistically, one out of two women and one out of four men suffer from fragility fracture sometime in their lives. The scary thing about osteoporosis is that you will not
know you suffer from the disease until a fracture happens. It is a dangerous silent disease which impacts older adults with the rate of more than 2 million fracture cases happen every year.

The underlying cause of fragility fracture is osteoporosis. Osteoporosis
might happen for a few reasons. The disease can be a result of heredity trait that often links with ethnicity. Even though every ethnicity is at risk, osteoporosis is most common among whites and Asian heritage. Besides, bone loss can happen due to the decrease in vitamin D. A decreased level of estrogen in women and testosterone in men. Inadequate intake of vitamin D and calcium can very likely be the cause of bone loss. Osteoporosis bones are spongy and full of holes because of the lack of proper nutrients over time.

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A way to prevent osteoporosis is changing your diet, exercises, and early treatment.  Since it is difficult to detect osteoporosis before a fragility fracture happens, it is much safer to prevent the disease. By supplying your body with the necessary amount of vitamin D, calcium and sometimes even appropriate hormone, you can possibly slow down the bone loss process if you already have an osteoporosis problem.

The Center for Bone and Joint Disease has no added the Bone Health Clinic and Post-Fracture Prevention Program.  Yvette Bennett, MS, ARNP, ONP-C is now taking appointments for this clinic.  Most health insurance and Medicare do a cover of these services. In fact they are encouraging our providers especially in orthopedics to provide the house to look at the secondary osteoporosis prevention in order to increase the quality of care that we are giving within the specialty. Give us a call today to set up an appointment!