osteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to become thinner. thin bones can break easily. most people think of their bones as being solid like a rock. actually bone is living tissue just like other parts of the body such as your heart brain or skin. bone just happens to be a harder type of tissue. bone is always changing. your body keeps your bones strong and healthy by replacing old bone with new bone. osteoporosis causes the body to remove more bone than it replaces. this means that bones get weaker. weak bones are more likely to break. osteoporosis is a bone disease that is quite common in women after menopause. at first osteoporosis has no symptoms but people with osteoporosis may develop loss of height and are more likely to break (fracture) their bones especially the back (spine) wrist and hip bones. eventually the spine becomes curved and the body becomes bent over. osteoporosis can be prevented and with proper therapy it can be treated.
what is osteoporosis?