1 Bone Disease Hospitals In Columbus, Ohio

Bone Disease (click for worldwide facilities list): Your bones help you move, give you shape and support your body. They are living tissues that rebuild constantly throughout your life. During childhood and your teens, your body adds new bone faster than it removes old bone. After about age 20, you can lose bone faster than you make bone. To have strong bones when you are young, and to prevent bone loss when you are older, you need to get enough calcium, vitamin D and exercise.

There are many kinds of bone problems, but we will discuss just a few.

Osteoporosis: Osteoporosis, which means-porous bones, causes bones to become weak and brittle.
Hormone therapy (HT) was once the mainstay of treatment for osteoporosis. But because of concerns about its safety and because other treatments are available, the role of hormone therapy in managing osteoporosis is changing.
If HT isn't feasible, and lifestyle changes don't help control your osteoporosis, prescription drugs can help slow bone loss and may even increase bone density over time.
A new physical therapy program has been shown to significantly reduce back pain, improve posture and reduce the risk of falls in women with osteoporosis who also have curvature of the spine. The program combines the use of a device called a spinal weighted kypho-orthosis (WKO) — a harness with a light weight attached to and specific back extension exercises.

Osteogenesis imperfecta :Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disorder characterized by bones that break easily, often from little or no apparent cause.
There is not yet a cure for OI. Treatment is directed toward preventing or controlling the symptoms, maximizing independent mobility, and developing optimal bone mass and muscle strength. Care of fractures, extensive surgical and dental procedures, and physical therapy are often recommended for people with OI. Use of wheelchairs, braces, and other mobility aids is common, particularly (although not exclusively) among people with more severe types of OI.
A surgical procedure called, rodding, is frequently considered for people with OI. This treatment involves inserting metal rods through the length of the long bones to strengthen them and prevent and/or correct deformities. Several medications and other treatments are being explored for their potential use to treat OI.
These include growth hormone treatment, treatment with intravenous and oral drugs called bisphosphonates, an injected drug called teriparatide (for adults only) and gene therapies.

Paget's disease : Paget's disease is a chronic bone disorder that is due to irregular breakdown and formation of bone tissue. Paget's disease can cause bones to expand and weaken and may result in bone pain, arthritis, bone deformity and fractures.
The goal of treatment is to control Paget's disease activity for as long a period of time as possible. Incidentally detected Paget's disease that is not associated with symptoms may require no treatment. Treatment options include aspirin, other anti-inflammatory medications, pain medications, and medications that slow the rate of bone turnover

Bones can also develop cancer such as Myeloma bone disease, a hematologic cancer (or blood cancer), because it develops in the blood's B cell, or primary bone cancers often called sarcomas such as osteosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, and chondrosarcoma.
The treatment of cancer of the bone, especially metastatic cancer, has two goals: management of the neoplasm and management of the symptoms produced by the local lesion. Prognosis is affected by a patient's age, the size of the primary tumor, grade and stage, degree of lymphatic and blood vessel invasion, the duration of symptoms and the location of the tumor on the arm, leg or trunk. There are two ways bone metastasis is treated. Systemic therapy, aimed at cancer cells that have spread throughout the body, includes chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and immunotherapy. Local therapy, aimed at killing cancer cells in one specific part of the body, includes radiation therapy and surgery.

Renal osteodystrophy is a bone disease that occurs when your kidneys fail to maintain the proper levels of calcium and phosphorus in your blood. It's a common problem in people with kidney disease and affects 90 percent of dialysis patients. A good treatment program, including proper attention to dialysis, diet, and medications, can improve your body's ability to repair bones damaged by renal osteodystrophy.

Other bone diseases are caused by poor nutrition, genetic factors or problems with the rate of bone growth or rebuilding.

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