Treatment Alternatives Osteoporosis

• Weight-bearing exercise
  Exercise is an important treatment for osteoporosis to maintain healthy bones. Activities that stress bones have been shown to have a positive effect in maintaining and increasing bone mass and preventing osteoporosis. Individuals who live a sedentary lifestyle have weaker bones and are subjected to a higher risk of sustaining pathologic fractures. While resistance forms of exercise (e.g. light weights) are excellent to stimulate bone production, even light aerobic exercise (e.g. aerobics, jogging, walking) can help strengthen bones and prevent osteoporosis.
• Nutrition supplementation
  Calcium supplementation is an important treatment to ensure oral intake is at least 1200 to 1500 mg every day. Comsuming this quantity of calcium is a difficult task considering that to do this you would have to eat or drink the equivalent of five glasses of milk each day. Because of this, many patients at-risk for osteoporosis should take an oral calcium supplement each day. This can be taken with Vitamin D (400-800 Units is recommended) to help increase the absorption. Also, caffeinated substances (e.g. coffee, soda, etc.) decrease calcium absorption, and should be avoided!
• Medications
  There are several available medications used for osteoporosis treatment. These include:
• Bisphosphanates (Fosamax)
  Bisphosphanates (e.g. Fosamax, Actonel) are a type of medication that helps to regulate calcium and prevent bone breakdown. Bone turnover, or replacement of old bone with new bone, is a normal process within our body. In patients with osteoporosis, the replacement with new bone does not maintain pace with the breakdown of old bone. Bisphosphanates slow the rate of bone breakdown to help maintain bone mass by inhibiting the osteoclast, the cell responsible for bone breakdown.

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