[Treatment of severe osteoporosis for internal medicine].
Some physicians of internal medicine recognize what is called severe osteoporosis is the bed-ridden condition because of severe pain and spinal deformity due to compression fractures. And also hip fracture makes a bed-ridden. In the end stage of osteoporosis, as effects of drugs to increase bone mineral density are limited, prevention of bed-ridden is needed a team-treatment not only by physician or orthopedic doctor but also by rehabilitation doctor and psychologist.
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Osaka Municipal Kohsaiin Hospital.