[Osteoporosis and pain or is osteoporosis painful?].
Osteoporosis as a disease is characterized by skeletal quantitative and qualitative abnormalities, leading to an increased fragility. Classically the disease is painless. The complications of the disease, that is bone fractures, cause a well-known acute symptomatology. Subsequent chronic pain is the consequence of skeletal deformities, joint incongruences and tensions on musculo-tendineous structures. Pain management includes pharmacological, physio- and ergo-therapeutical measures and stabilisation maneuvers.
Uebelhart
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Département de Réhabilitation et de Gériatrie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève. Brigitte.Uebelhart@hcuge.ch
Rizzoli
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D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D059408:Pain Management