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Spring Survey 2012 Results

Introduction

Program: Keeping Your Bones Strong for Life

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction LISTEN
  2. Bonnie’s Story LISTEN
  3. Fractures: A Warning Sign LISTEN
  4. Lifestyle Changes LISTEN
  5. Calcium LISTEN
  6. Exercise LISTEN
  7. The FRAX Tool LISTEN
  8. Listener Questions LISTEN
  9. A New Medicine LISTEN
  10. Take-Home Messages LISTEN

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Andrew Schorr:

Osteoporosis affects people of all ages.  What did can you do now to ensure strong bones for life?  If you’ve been diagnosed with osteoporosis can you still strengthen your bones?  Coming up, two leading osteoporosis experts and an osteoporosis patient.  We’ll discuss how to maintain bone health for life.  It’s all next on Patient Power. 

Hello and welcome to our live webcast on osteoporosis.  It’s our third program in our Keeping Your Bones Strong For Life series.  Really, I’m so delighted that we have this special edition series, and we want to help you avoid osteoporosis, to know your risk, do what you can to prevent it.  If you’re dealing with osteopenia or osteoporosis we want to help you get the right care for you. 

So we’ve been learning from our two previous programs that are on patientpower.info/strong bones, and we’ll hear more tonight, that osteoporosis really affects millions of people, and many more are at risk.  Unfortunately, it’s not what we talk about that often with our doctor.  Maybe when you get really much older you think, well, that’s more of a significant issue, but it’s something we all need to think about.  I need to think about it even with my teenagers.  My teenage daughter, who doesn’t like to drink milk, doesn’t get out in the sun that much, doesn’t do that much exercise, has a really limited diet, is she building up the bone mass and strength that she’s going to really need to depend upon for her whole life? 

And what about if you’re older?  What about middle age?  My wife is now concerned about it, and she’s 50 years young, you know, but now she’s really concerned about it, and what about as she gets older.  And what about if you have already had a fracture?  Is that a big red flag?  And really what we’re talking about is preventing fractures because certainly if you have fractures and can have them--I’ve even interviewed someone who had one turning over in bed or someone else sneezing, imagine that, and then you have a fracture.  If it can happen so easily, what does that mean for what you can do in your life?  And for an older person if you have a fracture like a hip fracture does that mean loss of mobility and unfortunately can even lead to your demise.  We don’t want any of that to happen.  Fortunately there are a range of medicines, prevention, lowering your risk if you have osteoporosis, so much more to do, even a new medication just approved a week ago or so as we record this live program. 

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