Risk factors affecting stability of Osteoporotic patients

Abstract EN

Objective : people affected with osteoporosis (OP) are at particular risk for bone fractures caused by falls.

Preventive intervention depends on first describing the risk factors for falls present in this population as a group and as individuals.

The aim was to study the balance characteristics in osteoporotic persons and its relationship to the frequency of falls.

Subjects : Forty OP postmenopausal females, diagnosed on the basis of bone mineral content, were included in this study.

The age ranged from 51 to 78 Years.

The patients were divided into two groups: G1, OP with normal posture (n = 25) and G2, OP with kyphosis (n = 15).

Kyphosis was defined as a Cobb angle of more.

than 54° Results : both groups with osteoporosis had different balance control strategies than the group without osteoporosis.

Specifically, those with osteoporosis had greater postural sway than either of the other two groups.

Conclusion : Osteoporotic patients, particularly those with kyphosis have unique balance features with high SI that may destabilize them during activities of daily living (ADL).

The use of balance stabilometry to assess balance in osteoporotic persons promises to predict the frequency of falls.

Balance rehabilitation may help to reduce falls.

In the meantime, it seems logical to objectively assess the balance system of persons who are at risk for injurious falls as a means to provide the best rehabilitation programs available that may help to reduce falls.