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  1. Mayo Clinic Minute: Osteoporosis is soft bones

    Osteoporosis is often called "soft bones." "Osteoporosis is thinning of the bone to the point where the bones can break," says Dr. Bart Clarke, a Mayo ...

  2. Mayo Clinic Minute: Exercise helps prevent bone fractures and falls

    "Osteoporosis essentially is where you have a lack of structure or mineral in the bone, so you're more predisposed to fracturing or breaking bones,” says Dr.

  3. In the Loop: Brittle bone disease can't dim this little girl's unbreakable spirit

    Ellie Butts was born with a disease that causes her bones to easily break. So easily that at just 2 years old, she's had more than 100 broken bones. Yet ...

  4. Osteoporosis treatment: Medications can help - Mayo Clinic

    ... broken any bones and are maintaining bone density — to consider taking ... Throughout your life, healthy bones continuously break down and rebuild. As ...

  5. MAYO CLINIC HEALTH LETTER

    ... bones — is the most commonly broken bone of the wrist. The scaphoid bone on the thumb side of the wrist is the most commonly fractured of the smaller wrist ...

  6. Arm pain When to see a doctor - Mayo Clinic

    Broken bones. American College of Emergency Physicians. https://www.emergencyphysicians.org/article/know-when-to-go/broken-bones. Accessed Jan. 27, 2023 ...

  7. Mayo Clinic Radio: Osteoporosis/Teeth Whiteners/Food Allergies and Asthma

    According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, osteoporosis is responsible for 2 million broken bones each year in the U.S. Mayo Clinic endocrinologist Dr.

  8. Women's Wellness: Bone density in women - Mayo Clinic News Network

    He says bone density only explains roughly 15 percent of your risk of breaking a bone and that there can be other factors contributing to bone breaks. “ ...

  9. Cast care: Do's and don'ts - Mayo Clinic

    If your child breaks ... Also, X-rays penetrate fiberglass casts better than plaster casts — making it easier for your doctor to examine your child's bones while ...

  10. Ewing sarcoma - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    A lump in the arm, leg, chest or pelvis. Bone pain. Break in a bone, also called a fracture. Pain, swelling or tenderness near the affected area. Sometimes ...