A few days ago, Beijing chaoyang hospital orthopaedic launched "osteoporosis prevention week" activities, a bone specialist special     remind old people don't sit by bus, because in the last row has many old man so clinical fracture.

Old people take the bus do not sit back

Beijing chaoyang hospital orthopaedic of doctor of vice director of kang south

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     Remember once to emergency surgical consultation, found that many people gathered around a lying in the old lady on emergency lockstitcher. Patients didn't dare move face-up, expression is very painful, spine X-ray showed first lumbar happened compression fractures. After careful inquiry just knowing the old lady and didn't hurt herself, bruises, just sitting in the last row on a bus, car on the road in rolling a stone had when she would not jolt move.

     With severe osteoporosis for elderly people speaking, fracture threat exists, and even at small-scale operations. Take the characteristics of the cases will tell it, when the bus with a certain speed Rolling Stones, the car had a very easily, especially Britain careen out, this car will be relatively strong shocks. The old lady's seat of its own hip suddenly had a upward exalt force, so that even the old man's hip leave car seats. When the hips again fell on the seat, will have a concussion force along the pelvis, cervical, thoracic vertebra and lumbar spine upward conduction. Because human lumbar border area with thoracic was weak, plus osteoporosis factors, so it's easy to be injured.

      Osteoporosis is a kind of common bone disease, also be the middle-aged postmenopausal women common diseases. Osteoporosis was defined as a bone by bone loss, destruction, micro-structure occur bone fragile and vulnerable to fracture skeletal system disease. Osteoporosis often silently, is often appeared after the only know bone fractures fragile.