National Osteoporosis Awareness & Prevention Month: Get Your Online Toolkit

This May is the National Osteoporosis Foundation Awareness and Prevention month.  In order to raise awareness of this disease, which affects over 10 million Americans, the NOF have launched an Online Toolkit.

The toolkit contains materials which you can use in displays at work or in your community which can help spread awareness and information about how osteoporosis can be prevented.

The kit includes:

• Poster (11” x 17”)
• Two Patient Fact Sheets
• Osteoporosis Tear and Share Bookmarks
• NOF Press Release
• Press Release Template

For more information, visit the National Osteoporosis Foundation Awareness and Prevention Online Toolkit web page.

And even more information on osteoporosis, see our osteoporosis education section.

Keywords:  National Osteoporosis Foundation, osteoporosis awareness and prevention

For Health Care Professionals : Join Bone Health Group

Own the Bone is a Web-based, clinically-proven quality improvement program designed to identify, evaluate and initiate evidence based care in fracture patients age 50 and over. It is simple to enroll, easy to use and packed full of tools to ease the implementation process.  The Own the Bone measures are consistent with recommendations from the National Osteoporosis Foundation, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Joint Commission, the World Health Organization, and the American Medical Association. Own the Bone was specifically developed to make the current recommendations easy to implement. By simply entering information in the Web-based data registry, your institution can immediately quantify results and begin to see how the measures can positively affect patient care.

The program focuses on fragility fracture care, rather than osteoporosis prevention. The seriousness of the fracture episode provides physicians with a “teachable moment” in which it is possible to impact behavior. The AOA believes that a cooperative effort between patients and their health care providers can result in a ripple effect throughout entire communities. The AOA encourages you to Own the Bone.

Bone Health Bulletin, is a quarterly newsletter that informs medical professionals about Own the Bone and developments in bone health.

Back issues of the Bone Health Bulletin are available for downloading and viewing in PDF format.

For more information on osteoporosis, see our osteoporosis education section.

Keywords: Own The Bone, Bone Health Bulletin, osteoporosis, bone fracture risk

Hip fractures more likely than cancer

Although breast and other cancers top most women’s health-worries list, osteoporosis-related fractures should also be a major concern.

In fact, a woman’s risk for an osteoporosis-caused hip fracture is the same as her breast, ovarian, and uterine cancer risk combined.

A broken hip, which is most common in people older than 65, can be a potentially life-changing or even life-threatening event, and may require surgery and long recovery times.  Some never fully recover from a broken hip and have to use a walker or wheelchair.

For more information visit the Marodyne LIVTherapy Osteoporosis page.

Keywords: osteoporosis, cancer, hip fractures