Have you ever felt some difficulties with making small movements such as standing, sitting, walking, or even lifting an object of the ground? So you may have osteoporosis. It is a serious public health problem. Actually it is called the silent disease, because it occurs without symptoms[1]. People usually do not realize that they have the disease until a bone breaks[2]. This breakage or fracture is often the first sign of osteoporosis[3]. Before beginning with its characteristics and who is most
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What clinical manifestations would you expect to see when assessing this patient? The major risk factors for hip fracture are osteoporosis, cardiovascular and fall in the elderly. The client usually reports a sudden onset of hip pain in the groin, after a fall, and pain radiating to the lateral hip, buttock, or knee. Many clients lose the ability walk, but in some instances the client with a minimally impacted facture may continue to bear weight. If a displaced fracture is present, the client
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Osteomyelitis is a bone infection mainly caused by bacteria. It can however be caused by fungi or other germs. Risk factors of this disease are a recent injury like an open fracture, after a surgical procedure that involves a bone, diabetes, hemodialysis, poor blood supply, a weakened immune system, and a blood infection. The bacterium causes an inflammatory response which cause many nonspecific symptoms. Some of the more common symptoms associated with it are bone pain which can be severe aching
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Background: A 60-year-old postmenopausal Caucasian woman, generally in good health; she has weighs 112 lbs. She uses initiated hormone therapy with estrogen/progestin for help with her menopausal symptoms. The hormone therapy is her only chronic medication. Personally she has no history of any fractures. This patient is a cigarette smoker, who rarely exercises and drinks coffee everyday. This patient also, has concerns that she is at risk for osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a common chronic metabolic
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Osteoporosis is a condition of porous bone and bone became brittle, fragile with increased susceptibility to fracture because of thin layer of the bone tissue. This happened due to lack of protein and mineral content, particularly calcium. Therefore, the strengths of the bone decreases over a period of time and fracture can happened without realising it. There are three types of osteoporosis fractures are wrist fracture, vertebral fracture, and hip fracture. Osteoporosis can occur while doing simple
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Osteoporosis may be diagnosed non-invasively. It can be detected on plain radiography as an incident finding, following a fracture from minimal trauma. It can also be detected from bone densitometry scans, which measure the bone mineral density (BMD). BMD tests are the most sensitive and specific tests available in the assessment of osteopenia, osteoporosis and fracture risk. Anyone who suffers from a condition that leads to an increase in bone loss and a decrease in bone density should undergo a
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COMPLETE GUIDE TO DAY TRADING A Practical Manual From A Professional Day Trading Coach Markus Heitkoetter BookSurge, LLC North Charleston, SC The opinions expressed in this manuscript are solely the opinions of the author and do not represent the opinions or thoughts of the publisher. The author represents and warrants that s/he either owns or has the legal right to publish all material in this book. The Complete Guide to Day Trading A Practical Manual From A Professional Day Trading Coach
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Another week went by and they didn’t see each other until fate stepped in again. She came over to his place. He was happy that she did because he was not having a good day and he knew if he saw her his day would become so much better. She went right into his room again. They talked and watched television and he felt very close to her. However in his mind, he was telling himself, "This isn’t real. It will be a repeat of what happened the last time." They started to kiss after lying in bed together
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Labor Day weekend of 1971 was when Cathy Kim received her first experience of a contraction. Mom Kim asked her, “Cathy you alright?” She replied, “Yes”, and prepared for the holiday weekend. Well come Monday morning, September 6 1971, Cathy was packing for Lake Erie and her water broke. She screamed for my father, “Bruce, my water broke!” My father ran from the living roll, towards the hallway for the bedroom to my mother. From the telephone in the bedroom he called his family’s home to notify them
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Travelodge UK 1 Travelodge UK Travelodge Hotels Limited Type Industry Founded Headquarters Private limited company Hospitality 1985 Thame, England, UK Number of locations 456 hotels in UK[1] [1] 11 hotels in Ireland [2] 3 hotels in Spain Area served United Kingdom Republic of Ireland Spain Keith Hamill (Chairman) Grant Hearn(CEO) Hotels £331.7m (2010) [1] Key people Products Revenue Operating income [1] £153.5m (EBITDAR) [1] £48.5m (EBITDA) (2010) £27.0m (2010) [1] [1] [3]
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