In order to publicize the importance of osteoporosis, when is the International Osteoporosis Day every year?

World Osteoporosis Day was first founded by the British National Osteoporosis Society on 1996, and was initiated and supported by the International Osteoporosis Foundation on 1997. At that time, it was scheduled to be World Osteoporosis Day on June 24th every year. Its purpose is to provide a very important focus information for those governments and people who do not pay enough attention to the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, so as to carry out universal education and information transmission.

With the activities of participating countries and organizations increasing steadily year by year, the influence of World Osteoporosis Day is expanding. By 1998, the World Health Organization began to participate and played a very important role as a co-organizer, and changed the World Osteoporosis Day to1October 20th 10 every year.

The main manifestations of osteoporosis

1 pain

The most common symptom of primary osteoporosis is low back pain, which accounts for 70% ~ 80% of patients with pain. Pain spreads to both sides along the spine, and it is relieved when lying on your back or sitting, aggravated when standing upright or standing for a long time, and aggravated when bending over, coughing and forcibly defecating. Generally speaking, when the bone loss exceeds 12%, bone pain will occur. When osteoporosis occurs in the elderly, compression and deformation of vertebral body, curvature of spine, muscle fatigue and even spasm can cause pain.

Recent thoracolumbar compression fractures can also cause acute pain, and the corresponding spinous process of the spine can have strong tenderness and percussion pain. If the corresponding spinal nerve is compressed, it can produce radiation pain in limbs, sensorimotor disorder in both lower limbs, intercostal neuralgia and retrosternal pain similar to angina pectoris. If the spinal cord and cauda equina are compressed, the function of bladder and rectum will be affected.

2, shortened body length, hunchback

Most of them appear after pain. The negative weight of the front of the vertebral body of the spine is large, especially the thoracic vertebra 1 1, thoracic vertebra 12 and the third lumbar vertebra. The load is large, and it is easy to be compressed and deformed, so that the spine leans forward and forms a hunchback. With the increase of age, osteoporosis is aggravated and the curvature of hunchback is increased. When osteoporosis occurs in the elderly, the vertebral bodies are compressed, each vertebral body is shortened by about 2 mm, and the average body length is shortened by 3 ~ 6 cm.

Step 3 rupture

This is the most common and serious complication of degenerative osteoporosis.

4. Decreased respiratory function

Thoracolumbar compression fracture, kyphosis and thoracic deformity can significantly reduce vital capacity and maximum ventilation, and patients often have symptoms such as chest tightness, shortness of breath and dyspnea.

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