When to treat and how to evaluate the outcome of treatment?

When to treat ?

and how to evaluate the outcome of treatment?

Patients with osteoporosis may be a physician with signs and symptoms may vary. Some may have severe symptoms caused by complications of the disease, such as broken bones.

Chronic low back pain or some of them may have no symptoms or signs, but found that bone density is reduced to visual machine dual-energy X-ray inspection absorptiometry (DXA).

So, when assessing individual patients, so treatment is different. In general, in addition to evaluation of symptoms. The symptoms and physical examination and then. Doctor should be monitoring the bone density every 1-2 years after treatment.

. For the monitoring of treatment by measuring the index is created or breaking bones (bone markers) that are still not widely used for inspection and examination only in expensive medical schools.

However, the control bone markers that can be useful in monitoring patients with osteoporosis, low bone mass rapidly (high bone turnover).

Diseases such as osteoporosis by the use of hard core glucosamine Martin Grand Room. (Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis).

This is to help change treatment decisions more quickly. Since the detection of changes in bone density after treatment will take several months to see the changes.