Category: Osteoporosis

• Neck Pain

  Neck Pain is a common problem but is not as disabling as back pain even though it occurs just as often as back pain. It can be divided into two types; 1. Inflammatory Neck Pain 2. Structural Neck Pain Inflammatory Neck Pain: 1. becomes worse with rest and at night 2. often improves with activity,…

  August 2, 2015

  · Acute Phase Reactants, Autoimmune diseases, Biologic Therapy, Bone, Colitis, Fracture, Headache, Infectious Diseases, Neck Pain, Neurology, Osteoporosis, Psoriasis

• Back Pain

  Back pains are very common. It is one of the top 10 reason to see a doctor. Back pains can be mechanical such as herniated disc or can be inflammatory such as in Spondyloarthritis. Mechanical back pain improves with rest but becomes worse with activity. Inflammatory back pain becomes worse with rest and improves with…

  July 27, 2015

  · Acute Phase Reactants, Autoimmune diseases, Biologic Therapy, Biologic Therapy, Bone, Cancer, Cancer, Corticosteroids, Fracture, Infectious Diseases, Kidney stones, oncology, Osteoporosis, Radiology, Rheumatology, Surgery, urology, Vascular Surgery

• Forteo (teriparatide) for treatment of Osteoporosis

  Points to remember about Forteo are: 1. This is an anabolic drug causing bone formation by stimulating preosteoblasts instead of preventing bone resorption as seen with other agents such as calcitonin and bisphosphonates. 2. Clinically Forteo appears to be very effective as I have seen patients stop fracturing after only four months of therapy with…

  July 15, 2015

  · Biphosphonates, Bone, DXA, Fracture, Metabolism, Nephrology, Osteoblast, Osteoclast, Osteoporosis, Vitamin D, Z Score