About osteoporosis

Did you know that your bones constantly renew themselves? Your body continually removes tiny portions of old bone and replaces it with new. When you have osteoporosis, your body removes bone more quickly than it can be replaced. This leads to a loss of bone thickness – your bones become less dense or solid.

As a result, your bones become brittle and fragile so that you are more likely to have a bone fracture (break or crack) than people with normal bones. Even a small bump or accident can cause a serious osteoporosis fracture, known as a fragility or minimal trauma fracture.

Osteoporosis usually has no symptoms, so you may not know you have it until a fragility fracture happens. These fractures can occur anywhere, but the most common places are the wrist, backbones, ribs, pelvis, hip and upper arm.

This website is designed to answer your questions about bone health and osteoporosis.